{"id":71249,"date":"2025-12-15T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71249\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T17:15:19","slug":"yankees-host-annual-winter-wonderland-event-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71249\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees host annual Winter Wonderland event \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Volunteers and staff members helped kids select the toys they wanted to receive at the Yankees\u2019 2025 Winter Wonderland event.<\/p>\n

Photo by Jewel Webber<\/p>\n

More than 6,000 Bronx kids and their families gathered for the New York Yankees\u2019 16th annual Winter Wonderland event on Friday, Dec. 12, in the Great Hall at Yankee Stadium.
\n\"\"Photo by Jewel Webber\n<\/p>\n

This holiday extravaganza was themed to be set in the North Pole. There were festive decorations and special appearances from Santa and Mrs. Claus.<\/p>\n

\"\"Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus greeted attendees. Photo by Jewel Webber<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Renaissance Youth Center<\/a>\u00a0Choir entertained attendees with live musical performances.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Renaissance Youth Center Choir performed for those in attendance. Photo by Jewel Webber<\/p>\n

In addition to enjoying the food and drinks on hand, the children at the event also got to choose their own holiday gift. The remaining toys and gifts were donated to Bronx-based organizations.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kids got to choose their own holiday gifts. Photo by Jewel Webber<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an amazing day. We get to work with incredible partners to make this happen,\u201d Yankees Corporate\/Community Relations Senior Vice President Brian Smith said. \u201cWe are so excited to once again host this event, and it\u2019s something we look forward to every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The toys were provided by Walmart<\/a>, which partnered with the Yankees for the Winter Wonderland event for an eighth straight year.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo by Jewel Webber<\/p>\n

\u201cThe partnership that Walmart has with the Yankees for the Winter Wonderland is such a great opportunity that we enjoy every year,\u201d Walmart Associate Merchant Michael York said. \u201cIt\u2019s about getting out into the community, making sure that every child has a toy, has excitement for Christmas. That\u2019s our purpose, to make sure everyone is living their best life and just enjoying the holiday spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo by Jewel Webber<\/p>\n

American Foliage<\/a> set up the holiday display, while the food and hot chocolate were provided by Legends Global<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Approximately 2,000 books were given to children after they selected toys. The books were provided by the Aaron Judge ALL RISE Foundation<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is such a magical day for us,\u201d Yankees Community Affairs Ambassador Haley Steinbrenner Swindal said. \u201cIt\u2019s really a fun day to celebrate our amazing kids from the community. Year after year, we get to watch these kids grow up, from the baby toys all the way up to the adolescent toys. It\u2019s really a magical day that\u2019s all about the kids. To watch the magic of Christmas through their eyes is really special for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to American Foliage, Legends Global and Walmart, other sponsors for this year\u2019s Winter Wonderland event included Nike<\/a> and Neil and Amanda Friedman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers and staff members helped kids select the toys they wanted to receive at the Yankees\u2019 2025 Winter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,12565,9,24,63,129,131,130,1032,36402],"class_list":["post-71249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-christmas","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-winter-wonderland","tag-yankees-winter-wonderland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71249","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=71249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}