When she was just 10-years-old, Gwen Goldman wrote a letter to the New York Yankees asking if she could be a batgirl.
She received a response from then Yankees general manger Roy Hamey who wrote:
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 it is a game dominated by men. [A] young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout.
Goldman still has the letter hanging on her living room wall.
Well, current Yankees GM Brian Cashman received an e-mail from Goldman's granddaughter Abby, and he wrote back "... it is not too late to reward and recognize the ambition you showed in writing that letter to us as a 10-year-old girl."
So, for the Yankees' game against the Angels, almost 60 years of holding onto this dream, Gwen Goldman stepped onto the field of Yankee Stadium as a batgirl for the team.
Goldman told ESPN, "It was a thrill of a lifetime -- times a million. And I actually got to be out in the dugout too. I threw out a ball. I met the players. Yeah, it goes on and on. They had set up a day for me; that is something that I never would have expected."
As to whether or not she holds any ill-will towards them team, Goldman said, "I didn't hold it against them. I loved the Yankees. I never in my wildest dreams -- never thought that 60 years later, Brian Cashman would make this become a reality."
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