Reading on the Teixeira signing that I discuss below, I saw this link.
If there is any proof on this planet that democracy doesn't work, it is that any vote not rigged by Diebold resulted in Aaron Boone's home run to defeat the Red Sox in game 7 of the 2003 ALCS being voted the most memorable moment in Yankee Stadiums I & II. Were the question restricted solely to Yankee Stadium post-renovation, it's plausible, but the Boone home run was considered the greatest moment in both incarnations of Yankee Stadium.
Having not been alive for many moments of significance at Yankee Stadium, I am limited to a mere three moments that ARE UNQUESTIONABLY more impressive that I am generating from memory (I now see the others are listed, but to prove the preposterousness at hand, I decline to read them).
1. Don Larsen - October 8, 1956 - throws a PERFECT GAME (one of seventeen in the history of baseball) in the WORLD GODDAMN SERIES.
2. Babe Ruth farewell speech to baseball (come on)
3. Lou Gehrig farewell speech (this is one of the greatest moments in baseball... period)
Then there's oh...
4. The possibly apocryphal called shot home run from Babe Ruth in the 1932 World Series.
5. Roger Maris swats home run number 61 off Tracy Stallard (ok, this isn't from memory, I had to look up that it took place at Yankee Stadium, but damn it, it did)
6. Most of the 2001 World Series
7. Hell, the 1977 World Series.
8. The 2000 World Series...it's a Subway series, proof that we can have a World Series that interests no one in 47 states (New Jersey and Connecticut, I'm sure, were tuning in).
9. Josh Hamilton receiving fellatio from Rick Reilly during the 2008 Home Run Derby, which he lost. This is more important because of the irony content. Baseball officially reached post-modernism here.
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