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Sixty years later, Yanks fulfill bat girl's dream

NEW YORK -- Gwen Goldman wiped a tear from her left eye as she set foot on the warning track behind home plate at Yankee Stadium on Monday afternoon, her heart thumping as she eyed the multicolored flags whipping atop the upper-deck frieze. Six decades after volunteering her services to her favorite team, the bat girl had finally arrived.

Goldman’s dugout debut highlighted the beginning of HOPE Week (Helping Others Persevere and Excel), an award-winning community initiative that will feature events each day through Friday. Each day, the Yanks will reach out to an individual, a family or an organization worthy of recognition and support, providing honorees with a day celebrating their accomplishments.

At 10 years old, Gwen Goldman wrote a letter to the Yankees asking to be a bat girl.
Tonight, as a part of the first day of #HOPEWeek, we welcome her to Yankee Stadium to live out her dream 60 years later.

[www.mlb.com]