 Today also marks the start of Hope Week, it's the 12th annual Hope Week where the Yankees help others persevere and excel and today's honoree is really a great story. Her name is Gwen Goldman and in 1961 as a 10-year-old she wrote a letter to George Steinbrenner expressing her dream of becoming a bat girl at the time. Women weren't allowed in the dugout so that request was not granted but here in 2021 they surprised her and told her that she would be the bat girl for tonight's game. I caught up with her on the field earlier to ask her just how excited she is to be in pinstripes tonight. I'm actually having a wonderful time. I was concerned you know it'd be so overwhelming which it is that I wouldn't be. I'm having fun and I'm meeting the Yankees and my family's here with me and I'm here I'm doing it. Can you describe the feeling it seemed like you almost paused as you were walking into that dugout to walk into that Yankees dugout? How meaningful was that to you? I didn't plan this. It's a dream of a lifetime that I get to be an honorary bat girl in the dugout, in the Yankee dugout. I sat there as a kid and that was my dream to be able to do that and have you ever had a dream come true? It's quite a feeling. I'm living one right now. Did you ever think when you wrote that letter 60 years ago that this would happen? Never. Never. I wrote it 60 years ago and I thought maybe it would happen then. It didn't but I loved the letter because it was a Yankee letter to me so even though it said no I still loved it but I never thought this would happen. Anna is actually on the field right now getting ready to throw out the first pitch. She has been smiling ear to ear since she's stepped foot on the warning track. I gotta believe she is going to remember this night forever and this is the first of many good stories that we will see during Hope Week.