<p>I was at my local supermarket this afternoon and saw a shocking site. Not the $1,400 / pound for truffles, but the New York Yankees Yearbook mixed in with the magazines.</p>
<p><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/00yan66.jpg”><img title=”00yan66″ height=”112″ alt=”00yan66″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/00yan66.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px” /></a> I’m old enough to remember when you could only buy these publications at the ballpark. Somewhere I still have the Mets and Yankees issues from the mid 1960s. They consisted of player profiles and statistics, with a couple of pages of action photos, maybe an interview or two, all packed into an economical 72 pages or so. They even used to revise them mid-way through the season. Cover price: 50 cents.</p>
<p>This year’s edition weighs in at more than 300 pages, and, acco<a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=311,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/00_yearbook.jpg”><img title=”00_yearbook” height=”192″ alt=”00_yearbook” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/00_yearbook.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a>rding to a review on eBay, weighs more than three pounds. It looks more like an issue of <em>Vanity Fair</em> than a sports publication. Since the proud history of Yankee Stadium is about to be plowed assunder, there’s a tribute to Monument Garden, among other articles. </p>
<p> Cover price for the 2007 Yankee yearbook? $25. You can do the math, but I’m just guess that’s way more than the regular rate of inflation.</p>
<p>And they wonder why they’re losing fans?</p>
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