Yankee Stadium Special this Saturday on NBC

The Legacy of Yankee Stadium will air Saturday at 7 p.m., on NBC. Here's some more info from the Daily News:

With the old Yankee Stadium entering its final season, the goodbyes are starting early, and if WNBC/ Ch. 4's special tomorrow night may not ultimately be the best, it's got pretty good stuff

This documentary, hosted by WNBC reporter Greg Cergol, seems to put 85 years of Yankee Stadium events into no particular chronological or thematic order.

We jump from the late-'90s Yankee championships to the 1957 Billy Graham crusade, back to Billy Joel and then over to Babe Ruth and the 1938 Joe Louis-Max Schmeling fight.

The commentators are familiar and solid: Pete Hamill, columnist Dave Anderson, boxing historian Bert Sugar and former Yankees like Sparky Lyle and Bernie Williams.

The show is generally constructed as a home-team special. When it replays the Jeffrey Maier catch, it doesn't acknowledge that the Yankees got away with one, and it doesn't mention that after the Brosius home run, the Yankees came from ahead to lose that World Series.

But it doesn't have to, because it focuses on the stadium part of the story. Toward that end, the footage of the Graham crusade is fascinating, and it does better than many other specials in acknowledging that football, too, has a strong history at the stadium.

There will also be this at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center on Sunday, March 30th (from Peter Abraham's blog):

The storied 85-year history of Yankee Stadium will be presented by Alfred Santasiere III at the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center on Sunday, March 30 from 3-5 p.m.

Santasiere is director of publications for the Yankees and co-author of “Yankee Stadium: The Official Retrospective,” which will be available for purchase at the museum during the event. For tickets or for more information, please call the Yogi Berra Museum at (973) 655-2378.