Yankee Opening Day was Monday in the Bronx, versus the Boston Red Sox, another opulent club amid a franchise soul search, having suffered through an ugly 2012 fire walk under bewildering guru Bobby Valentine.

WSJ: MLB: Cold and Old in the Bronx-New York Yankees��Jason Gay

Yankee Opening Day was Monday in the Bronx, versus the Boston Red Sox, another opulent club amid a franchise soul search, having suffered through a ugly 2012 fire walk under bewildering guru Bobby Valentine.

WSJ: MLB: Cold and Old in the Bronx-New York Yankees��Jason Gay

The crowd of 40, 216 was the smallest for a Red Sox-Yankees game in the Bronx since 27, 631 were across the street at the old ballpark on May 27, 1999, according to STATS. And for the second straight game, the stadium was nearly empty in the late innings.

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In 1988, two trains collided in the Bronx after an engineer apparently ran through a red stop signal.

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On Saturday I attended the Yankees-Red Sox contest, the second game of a three-parter in the Bronx.

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But the Red Sox will surely have the money to sign enough star players to challenge their hated Bronx rivals on the diamond.

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