Stars & teens move home plate dirt across street to new Yankee Stadium

Don’t forget to shovel out the humongi mound of ashes in the Yankee Archives Room!

Nieves joined Yankee legends David Cone, Paul O’Neill, Scott Brosius and Jeff Nelson to move pieces of history from the original ballpark to the new one being built across 161st Street. Nieves, one of dozens of Bronx High School students in a Yankees-affiliated engineering and architecture program, walked the dirt from one mound to another, while construction workers carried the home plate and pitcher’s rubber coverings.

Cone, a 1998 World Series champion who pitched a perfect game from the pitchers’ mound a year later, stared Saturday at the hole in the ground after a worker pulled up the rubber covering.

“This piece of rubber is special, because this is how we made our living, on this piece of rubber,” said Cone, 45. He said he was also attached to the original bleachers.

“That’s where the ‘Bleacher Creatures’ would yell our names, and the bleachers shook during games,” he said.