Yankee Stadium (1923) Yankee Stadium (1923) Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It was the home ballpark of the New York Yankees, one of the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises, from 1923 to 1973 and then from 1976 to 2008. The stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games during its 85-year history. It was also the former home of the New York Giants football team from 1956 through the first part of the 1973–74 football season. The stadium's nickname, "The House That Ruth Built", is derived from Babe Ruth, the baseball superstar
Ruth Fairfax House the Public Trustee sold the house to John Cockburn in November 1910. In 1927 it was purchased by George Maxted, a Brisbane bookmaker. It was sold again in October 1947 to the Queensland Country Women's Association (CWA) to be used as their Brisbane headquarter (their headquarters previously were in Toowoomba). Following the death of Ruth Fairfax, the first Queensland President of the CWA, on 1 February 1948, when the CWA officially opened their new office on 10 February 1948, they named the building Ruth Fairfax House in her memory. The house was used as their headquarters until 1960 when they