“Here at the Yankees, we have championed to break down gender barriers in our industry. Gwen Goldman waves to the crowd after she was introduced as the bat girl at Yankee Stadium on Monday night. Monday, she served as the Bronx Bombers’ honorary bat girl and threw the ceremonial first pitch. Goldman’s daughter, Abby, forwarded the letter to current general manager Brian Cashman, who penned a new letter stating that Goldman could finally fulfill her childhood dream. “While we agree with you that girls are certainly as capable as boys, and no doubt would be an attractive addition on the playing field, I am sure you can understand that in a game dominated by men a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout,” he wrote. Then-general manager Roy Hamey declined her request in a letter that has been sitting in Goldman’s living room since. In 1961, 10-year-old Gwen Goldman wrote to her favorite team and asked to become its bat girl. Sixty years after declaring the dugout was no place for a girl, the Yankees rectified their mistake and made one fan’s dreams come true. ‘Nothing there’: Mets reliever claims MLB official cleared him after ejection Top reliever gets Yankees out of bases-loaded jam in eighth Max Scherzer knows exactly how Mets start unraveled At least the Mets’ pitching meltdowns, fielding blunders and brutal strikeouts cost a lot of money
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