Playbook's Stadium 50 -- Significant moments in North American stadium history
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium, 1965, 1979 and 2008
Papal masses.
Yankee Stadium didn't host the World Series in 1965, which left the House That Ruth Built available for something bigger -- a mass with Pope Paul VI. Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI also later celebrated masses in Yankee Stadium, providing the most religious voices there outside the Voice of God himself, Bob Sheppard.
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