Only a year after they changed baseball forever with the purchase of Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees set out to change the way the game was watched.

In 1921, Yankee co-owners Jacob Ruppert and Tillinghast l'Hommedieu Huston announced plans to build a spectacular ballpark, baseball's first triple-decked structure. With an advertised capacity of 70,000, it would also be the first to be labeled a "stadium."

The new stadium would favor lefthanded power with the right-field foul pole only 295 feet from home plate (though it would shoot out to 429 by right center). Though the left-field pole measured only 281 feet from the plate, righthanded hitters were neutralized by a 395-foot left field and a whopping 460 to left center.

Because it was widely recognized that Ruth's tremendous drawing power made the new stadium possible, it would immediately become known as "The House That Ruth Built." Later that season, the stadium hosted the first of 33 World Series and the Yankees won their first World Championship over their former landlord, the Giants. Of course, as the stadium became the stage for a staggering number of World titles -- now totaling 26 -- it also would become known as "The Home of Champions."

On August 8, 1972, after years of debate about the future of the aging ballpark, the Yankees signed a 30-year lease with the City of New York which called for Yankee Stadium to be completely modernized in time for the 1976 season. After completing the stadium's 50th anniversary season in 1973, the Yankees moved to Shea Stadium for two seasons while their home was almost completely demolished and then rebuilt.

The remodeled Yankee Stadium opened on April 15, 1976, with the Yankees topping Minnesota 11-4 and, like its predecessor, would host the World Series in its inaugural season. The stadium, in fact, hosted the Fall Classic in its first three seasons with the Yankees winning back-to-back World titles in 1977 and 1978.

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