An evening at one of sport’s great theatres - Yankee Stadium

Michael Moynihan took his place in the press tribune at Yankee Stadium in New York and in between gorging on the smorgasbord of free food, indulged in one of America’s great sporting pastimes: Baseball at Yankee Stadium.

Patience is the hidden virtue in baseball. The players learn that early on, but a visitor like myself gathered the lesson on the hoof.

Take the long trundle north on the subway through Manhattan. For much of the journey the only diversion was ticking off entries in the great American songbook — 59th Street, 110th Street — until the carriage was gradually pinstriped, tourists and ultras alike in the Yankee verticals when 161st Street, and The Stadium, came into view.