“There was a real loud bang and explosion. Extremely loud,” said Bill LeSuer to Randy Kennedy on April 14th, 1998. “I looked up and there was a real big puff of smoke. When I saw the hole, I realized something had fallen.”
LeSuer, then the Angels strength and conditioning coach, was the only person to witness a 500 lb. steel and concrete expansion joint crash down from the Yankee Stadium upper deck onto the loge seats below one day earlier. He’d been checking out Monument Park before batting practice and was walking across the outfield back to the dugout.