Juan Gonzalez of the NY Daily News shows how the new Yankee Stadium
has evicted the baseball team from All Hallows High School in the Bronx, an institution I'm quite familiar with, and quite fond of, having written my master's paper on the school's basketball team in 1990. Promised a new field to replace their old one on the site of the Bombers' new playground for the rich, the Gaels will have to wait until 2011. Oh, and pay to play.
To accomplish all this additional traveling for the varsity and JV teams, even for practices, the school has been forced to buy two small buses and order a third. The total cost, says school President Paul Krebbs, has been more than $100,000.
But the Yankees, with all their revenue from the new park, stepped up and did the right thing, right?
Krebbs figured that since the new stadium made them homeless, the Yankees should help bear the school's additional cost.
He applied for a $40,000 grant from the Yankees Community Foundation to pay for one bus. That amounts to less than one inning's pay for CC Sabathia. "We were rejected," Krebbs said. "They told us they don't pay for vehicles."
