outreach efforts<\/a>, including youth, education, and health initiatives, as well as support for community partners in the Bronx and New York City.<\/p>\n![\"y](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HGYVjP1bAAEb2KI.jpeg\")
Former Yankees manager and three-time Yankees World Series winning catcher Joe Girardi accepting the \u201cPride of the Yankees\u201d award.Photo courtesy of the New York Yankees Media team.<\/p>\n
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The event was held at the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan and was attended by the entire Yankees roster and the Steinbrenner family, the team\u2019s principal owners. This year\u2019s total raised an all-time high of $2.5 million at the dinner, more than last year\u2019s total of $2.4 million, supporting the foundation\u2019s charitable endeavors.<\/p>\n
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The event was headlined by former Yankees manager and three-time Yankees World Series-winning catcher Joe Girardi, who received the \u201cPride of the Yankees\u201d award at the dinner. Girardi, who played for the team from 1996 to 1999 and managed from 2008 to 2017, led the franchise to its most recent championship in 2009. He currently serves as a broadcaster for the YES Network.<\/p>\n
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Recently retired president of YES Network John J. Filippelli accepting the \u201cLifetime Achievement\u201d award at the 46th Annual Yankees Homecoming Dinner on Sunday, April 19.Photo courtesy of the New York Yankees Media team.<\/p>\n
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Also honored was John J. Filippelli, the recently retired president of YES Network and a member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, who received the \u201cLifetime Achievement\u201d Award. Highmark Health was recognized with the \u201cChampion of the Foundation\u201d Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aaron Judge at the 46th Annual Yankees Homecoming Dinner on Sunday, April 19. Photo courtesy of the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10094,128,11781,85165,85166,9,24,321,85167,63,129,131,130,16301],"class_list":["post-215862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-aaron-judge","tag-bronx","tag-hilton","tag-joe-girardi","tag-john-fillippi","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-new-york-yankees-foundation","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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