Baseball fans who want to drop in before or after a Yankee game will find a two-story, 50-lane bowling center with paintings of Yankee greats on the outside wall and a big sign indoors admonishing bowlers to "watch your language."

Yes, the Orioles have usurped the Bronx Bombers' moniker, something that surely has angered the ghosts of Yankee greats looking on from Monument Park behind the center-field fence at the Stadium.

The walls are filled with specially built cases for his 173 autographed baseballs, framed portraits of Yankee greats, bats, World Series tickets, baseball cards and a pair of signed Yankee pants.

Ruth's uniform number 3 is among those of Yankee greats who have had theirs retired; he is one of five Yankees players or managers to have a granite monument erected to him there.

They delight to find a former receptionist's photograph among a display of Yankee greats and to discover a half-bust in the dugout honoring an equipment manager who served 58 years.

They meet in a room that has walls painted in Yankee Stadium blue and adorned with framed pictures of Yankee greats.

When he played for the Mariners, Rodriguez would ask Randolph about Yankee greats, specifically the impact Thurman Munson had on the team in the 1970's.

You could joke and laugh and swap stories with Whitey Ford and Reggie Jackson and other Yankee greats; with DiMaggio, most of the Yankees remained silent until he spoke to them.

March 1: Still unhappy with slumping Rangers' attendance, Boss brings in past Yankee greats to drive the Zamboni.

He even was asked to attend a ceremony in his honor as the Yankees did something many agreed was long overdue: put up a plaque with Berra's likeness where the rest of the monuments to Yankee greats stand behind the left-field wall.