Gone Forever

On my recent trip to New York, I went to the Bronx to see the new Yankee Stadium. It looks impressive on the outside. The Yanks were out of town but I was planning on taking the stadium tour. When I got to the park, I decided not to take the tour. I want to see the new stadium when I finally see a game there.
Instead, my attention wandered across the street to where the original stadium stood, the greatest and most historic ballpark ever. For whatever reason, Americans are all too willing to knock down historic landmarks and that was the case with Yankee Stadium. As I stood on a new, nearby football field and track on top of a parking garage, I had a nice high view of the old Yankee Stadium site. From ground level you couldn't see anything since there are plywood walls to keep people out. But the view I had from the football field let me see what was of Yankee Stadium. There was nothing there. Inside the walls, several bulldozers were moving around dirt. A large hauling truck was taking away concrete debris. That is all that is left of Yankee Stadium.
I stood there for about 15-minutes, just looking and staring. I was sad. This glorious ballpark, a place where I had so many great memories, was gone. Completely.
There will be a park to take it's place. They will call it Heritage Park. I guess that is better than erecting apartment buildings like they did at Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds, or a parking lot like at the site of Old Comiskey.
Some people call it progress. I call it destroying history.
First of all, the new stadium was unnecessary. The new stadium has a Yankees Museum in it. Wouldn't it have been better to make the Old Yankee Stadium a Yankees Museum? Wouldn't it have been neat if the Yankees played one game a year in the old park like they do at historic Rickwood Park in Alabama? How great would it have been if they played college and high school games there? What about some minor league games?
Maybe I'm being Pollyannish. But it just hurt, to see a vacant lot where Yankee Stadium used to be.