Not less than 81 dates a 12 months — and ideally, extra – the streets round Yankee Stadium are filled with game-day noise. However it’s nights like this, when the Yankees present up with no scoreboard or field rating hooked up, that replicate their actual connection to the Bronx.
This previous Friday, the group and Legends World employees members offered and served meals for a number of hundred native residents at a Thanksgiving feast hosted by SCAN-Harbor (Supportive Kids’s Advocacy Community) on the Rev. T. Wendell Foster Park and Recreation Heart.
Tables had been packed, turkey and trimmings had been sizzling and households from the neighborhood loved a night once they didn’t want to fret about something besides having fun with a meal collectively.
“It’s about being a productive member of the neighborhood,” stated Brian Smith, the Yankees’ Senior Vice President of Company/Neighborhood Relations. “That’s what this all comes all the way down to, to work with our neighbors and mix assets with our community-based companions to generate entry. Which means the world.”
On Monday, the Yankees and Krasdale Meals held their annual Thanksgiving Meals Voucher Giveaway at Yankee Stadium’s Gates 2 and eight, distributing roughly 4,000 $25 meals vouchers that may be redeemed at taking part Bronx-based C-City and Bravo Supermarkets.
The group’s outreach doesn’t cease with Thanksgiving. The Bronx Clergy will accomplice for a vacation meals drive at Yankee Stadium, amassing provides for numerous soup kitchens and meals pantries all through the Bronx.
“You want companions like that to place collectively a neighborhood All-Star workforce, to drive change and entry,” Smith stated.
On Dec. 12, the Yankees will maintain their Winter Wonderland on the Stadium, an occasion the place greater than 6,000 native youths can pick a toy and obtain a meal.
A vacation pop-up meals distribution can be on deck. And Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone is scheduled to take part in a toy distribution occasion with the New York Police Division’s forty fourth Precinct simply earlier than Christmas.
“It reveals that degree of dedication all through our group,” Smith stated. “Our possession shows that precedence of giving again, our on-field personnel shows that precedence, and all through the entrance workplace. When you’ve gotten that organization-wide dedication, it makes an enormous distinction.”
