Construction began on Yankee Stadium the first week of May 1922. Original owners Jacob Ruppert and Cap Huston paid $675,000 for the site - an old lumberyard - to develop it nito a grand stadium for the Yankees, an up-and-coming American League baseball team once known as the New York Highlanders. The stadium cost approximately $2.5 million to build, and more than 2,000 tons of steel, 20,000 cubic yards of concrete, 16,000 square feet of sod, and more than 1,000,000 brass screws went into the construction of what was the first ballpark to be called a stadium. When it opened on April 18, 1923, Yankee Stadium also supported the first triple-deck stand in the the Major Leagues, not to mention a massive electronic scoreboard.

This brick, housed inside a display case, was removed from the indoor batting cage called the Columbus Room (as in "hit well or get shipped back to Columbus", the former site of the Yankees' Triple-A farm team), which is connected to the Yankees' Clubhouse by a short tunnel. This brick was used during the original 1922-23 construction, when it was first purchased from the Goldrick Brick Company in Kingston, New York.

During the demolition of Yankee Stadium in 2009, this brick was carefully removed from the Columbus Room. With an MLB Authenticator present during its removal, it was hologrammed and numbered to ensure its authenticity. These bricks are very limited in quantity and rich in history, to be treasured for generations to come.