For Yankees’ Bat Girl Gwen Goldman, a Dream Six Decades in the Making

Even though she had been rejected 60 years ago, she said she never held it against the team. But she kept Hamey’s response on a bulletin board at her home in Connecticut for decades.

“It wasn’t what I wanted to see, but they wrote me a letter and I’ve always loved them,” she said, adding later, “But I never in my wildest dreams ever thought that 60 years later, Brian Cashman would make this become a reality.”

As part of an annual charity week, the Yankees invited Goldman after hearing her story from her daughter, who had emailed a photo of the 60-year-old rejection letter. In a new letter to Goldman, Cashman, the Yankees’ general manager since 1998, wrote that “a woman belongs everywhere a man does, including the dugout” and that it was “not too late to reward and recognize the ambition you showed in writing that letter to us as a 10-year-old girl.”

“Some dreams take longer than they should to be realized,” he added, “but a goal attained should not dim with the passage of time.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/sports/baseball/yankees-bat-girl-gwen-goldman.html