NEW YORK – Yankee Stadium’s gates swung open for the first time in nearly 18 months on Thursday, as elated and emotional fans welcomed back their Bronx Bombers after a season played to empty stands amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fans young and old streamed into the park as an organist played the Big Apple anthem “New York, New York”, the latest hint that life may slowly be starting to get back to normal.
“It’s surreal. I didn’t think there would be fans this year,” said Nicole Marinello, a 34-year-old middle school teacher from Brooklyn who lives and breathes Yankees baseball and watched virtually all of last year’s 60-game season on TV.
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