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To current millionaire Major League ball players and past Hall of Famers the dirt is priceless if it comes from the now vacant Yankee Stadium.

What a sight to see Don Larsen being assisted by Whitey Ford scooping up dirt from the pitcher's mound. The same mound that he pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

The players and their fans hesitated to leave the stadium knowing it would be their last visit. Yankees staffers reportedly stayed at the stadium until the wee hours of the morning running the bases, digging up dirt and drinking beer. What a memorable and humbling night for those fortunate to be there at this time in history. If I sound jealous it is because I am.

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As a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan I have never been too keen on the American League or the New York Yankees. Their superiority at times has both bored and frustrated me.

However, I do respect greatness and I do respect history. Yankee Stadium overflowed with both qualities. As an institution it served not only its community and its state but also the country very well.

To list the all the great moments in sports history that took place there would be an exhausting exercise. To list the number of great players who have played there would take an encyclopedic volume of words.

As a Notre Dame fanatic I know what it is like to root for "America's Team". People either hate the New York Yankees or they love them. There is very little in between.

And as a Notre Dame fan I feel obligated to inform you that they did not just play baseball in Yankee Stadium. There were many events that included boxing and yes, football.

On November 10, 1928 that is what the fans were doing at Yankee Stadium. They were watching football in a game that is now legend. Not many can tell you the name of the players on the field or the final score but there are many who can tell you what words were spoke at halftime somewhere in the recesses of that legendary stadium.

Notre Dame was scheduled to play a heavily favored Army team. After a scoreless half, Knute Rockne, relayed to his players his "interpretation" of what former player George Gipp had spoken to him on his death bed eight years earlier.

George Gipp's greatness on the football field was unmatched in that era. This made his untimely death from complications involving strept throat a national tragedy.

Knute Rockne had a flair for the dramatic. He used that tragedy to inspire his team that day as he used these words, "someday when things are going against us, tell the boys to go out and win just one for the Gipper" to exhort his team to a 12-6 victory.

For Yankee fans across the country they laid to rest an institution that was celebrated at its birth by the sound of the crack off the bat of Babe Ruth as he hit the first ever home run in Yankee Stadium.

As those fans filed out and the last Yankees staffers left I wonder if that stadium truly went silent. How could a place that has heard so many cheers at so many games go quietly as it is laid to rest?

Perhaps if you listened closely enough you could hear echoes of those victorious cheers and the voices of the legends that played there. There certainly was much laughter in the locker rooms as they celebrated their many championships. Yankee Stadium is undoubtedly a magical place. Anything could happen there and sometimes did. It would not be hard to imagine hearing the Babe, Mick, Whitey, Yogi or Lou Gehrig if you pressed your ear against just the right place against the concrete that held that mighty stadium together.

Perhaps you might even be able to hear the booming voice of that short rotund coach from Norway, of a team called the Fighting Irish, as he sends them back on the field to bring home an improbable win for his team. He used a speech that is now legend and a part of the American fabric.

Yankee Stadium was part of that fabric as well. Whether you like the Yankee's or not, if you are a sports fan, you realize the last game played in that stadium is a significant moment in sports history and pause when you think of the many other moments that have taken place there.

Farewell Yankee Stadium and thanks for the memories.

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