Video: Gwen Goldman Reacts to Fulfilling 60-Year-Old Dream of Being Yankees Bat Girl

In 1961, 10-year-old Gwen Goldman wrote the New York Yankees, hoping to be the team's bat girl. Her request was denied. 

On Monday, 60 years later, the Yankees granted her wish as a part of HOPE (Helping Others Persevere & Excel) week:

In 1961, then-Yankees general manager Ron Hamey rejected her request, writing in a latter: "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," (h/t the Associated Press).

But current general manager Brian Cashman was forwarded an email by Goldman's daughter, Abby, and made aware of the former request. 

"Some dreams take longer than they should to be realized, but a goal attained should not dim with the passage of time," he wrote Goldman in a letter. "I have a daughter myself, and it is my sincere hope that every little girl will be given the opportunity to follow her aspirations into the future."