Often compared to cathedrals, America's baseball stadiums share many qualities with Europe's holy sites: Devoted followers, ritualized traditions, countless prayers, etc. In fact, ballparks have frequently been used for religious services, like the papal masses, Jehovah's Witness assemblies, and Billy Graham sermons that regularly took place at Yankee Stadium throughout the 20th century.But this well-worn 'cathedral' analogy fails to reconcile the relative permanence of 1,000-year-old shrines like Westminster Abbey with the fleeting existence of ballparks like Yankee Stadium – a 58,000-seat structure that opened a century ago today before closing its doors just 85 years later.
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