"The House that Ruth Built", Yankee Stadium, is being rebuilt. Ground was broken on the New Yankee Stadium on August 16, 2006, and it won't be much longer before the Bronx Bombers will move into their new home, so it's never too early to start thinking about getting New Yankee Stadium baseball tickets. With a staggering total price tag estimated at more than $1 billion making it the most expensive stadium ever built in the U.S., the new ballpark will have the look of the old Yankee Stadium and the feel of a modern sports venue. When it opens at the start of the 2009 Major League Baseball season, the new features will include more luxury boxes (to help George Steinbrenner pay for A-Rod's contract) and a restaurant in center field. Interestingly, the new Yankee Stadium will only have about 51,000 seats, or some 6,000 less than the current Yankee Stadium. So that means New York Yankees tickets will be even harder to find, and you are going to need some help from GoTickets.com.

Of course one of the most famous features of the old ballpark, Monument Park, will be moved over to the new stadium. With a New York Yankees ticket you'll be able to take a trip through history and see the plaques, monuments and retired numbers of all the great players who have worn the famous pinstripes in the past. Among the many immortals in Monument Park are Babe Ruth, Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Don Mattingly, Whitey Ford, Thurman Munson, Elston Howard and Lou Gehrig to name just a few. If you want New Yankee Stadium tickets, GoTickets.com will be the place to get them.

Although history buffs will mourn the loss of the current Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923, the venerable venue is starting to show its age and it was inevitable that a new stadium would be needed to help fund baseball's most lucrative payroll. Still, the unique history of Yankee Stadium shouldn't be forgotten - it used to be a major venue for boxing with fighters like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano and Muhammad Ali all putting on the gloves in the Bronx. It hosted some huge college football games, and on the other end of the spectrum, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II both said mass there. So before it's too late, maybe you need to get Yankee Stadium tickets a few times to say goodbye to the old ballpark, and then get ready to buy your New Yankee Stadium tickets to be there as a new chapter in history is written.

One of the biggest New York sports events in many years will be that first game of the 2009 season at Yankee Stadium, which will no doubt overshadow the debut of the New Mets Stadium, which is set to replace Shea Stadium in 2009 as well. You can bet that Yankee Stadium tickets for that game are going to be red hot, and you can also bet that GoTickets.com will have a great selection of Yankee Stadium seats available. And even if you don't make it to the first ever game at the new Yankee Stadium, GoTickets.com will also have Yankees baseball tickets for every regular season game (including of course Yankees-Red Sox tickets), Yankees playoff tickets and it sure would be fitting to have New York Yankees World Series tickets in 2009.