According to Internet Media: For the 50,000 fans at Yankee Stadium, Opening Day went something like this Thursday: High spirits trumped low temperatures."I've been waiting since last November," said Cindy Dolan, 39, of Somers, as she turned out on a chilly day that felt more December than March. "I can feel the excitement. There are kids missing school - which is what I would do."
Dolan came with pal Maria Phelps, 59, who was getting her first look at the new Yankee Stadium as the Bronx Bombers hosted the Tigers to start the 2011 season.
"Opening Day is the best day of the year," declared Al Beck, 64, who came down from Milford, Conn. "I'm waiting from the last game of the last year to baseball."
Beck, who estimated he'd attended close to 30 openers, came clutching a bag filled with winter gear on a raw, chilly afternoon when the temperature barely reached the 40-degree mark.
"We've been here in the snow," he said. "We've been here when it was 70 (degrees)."
Rusty and Kathy Plummer drove to the Bronx from their Detroit home to sit in the bleachers - and root for the Yankees.
Rusty, 52, said he became a lifelong booster of the Bombers after shaking Mickey Mantle's hand at age 6. His wife couldn't wait for the first pitch.
"There's nothing like the excitement and electricity in the air like sitting in the bleachers," she said. "You won't find it anywhere else."
