July 1, 2021 by NextTribe Editors · Arts & Culture

The Yankees Newest Bat Girl: A 70-Year-Old Fulfilling Her Dream, 60 Years Later

When she was 10, Gwen Goldman's dearest wish was turned down. This week it was finally granted. What childhood dream do you still hold onto?

"Welcome to the dugout," a Yankees player said to Gwen Goldman on Monday as she stepped down off the field. The line has special significance to Goldman, 70, because 60 years earlier she had been told expressly that she would not be welcome in the dugout.

When she was 10, Goldman wrote to the Yankees asking to be a bat girl, but the response from then-general-manager Roy Hamey was that a young lady such as herself would "feel out of place in a dugout." Goldman was crushed, but the rejection didn't thwart her love for the Yankees. She even displayed the framed letter from Hamey in her Connecticut living room.

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