Yanks, Mets Dig In for Stadium Sell-Offs

Demolition isn’t usually very profitable—unless you’re knocking down Yankee Stadium or Shea Stadium and auctioning off every last brick. When New York’s stadiums close at season’s end, they’ll transform into a merchandising windfall, Newsweek reports. Seats, lockers, scoreboards and maybe even infield dirt will be up for sale, and should easily net the clubs upward of $10 million.

Fans are already trying to claim souvenirs; the Yankees are pressing charges against a pair who tried to steal some upper-deck bunting. Pairs of seats will fetch at least $1,000 each by themselves, one expert said. But some fans won’t be buying in. “It would be like taking something off a corpse,” said one opponent of public stadium financing. "Besides, I already took a seat from Yankee Stadium in 1976." (More Yankee Stadium stories.)