Shoppers flocked to the team store at Yankee Stadium on Sunday morning to buy postseason gear at Yankee Stadium, still reveling in the team’s American League Championship victory on Oct. 20, 2024.
Photo by Emily Swanson
Yankees fans in the Bronx were in their glory Sunday, celebrating the team’s first American League pennant in 15 years — and buying the swag to go with it.
Shoppers flocked to the team store at Yankee Stadium on Sunday morning to buy postseason gear at Yankee Stadium, still reveling in the team’s American League Championship victory on Saturday night. The Game 5 victory over the Cleveland Guardians sent the Bronx Bombers back to the World Series for the first time since 2009, where they will seek their 28th world championship.
The store opened at 10 a.m. and offered a wide range of postseason merch, plus half-off most other items. The morning stop at the stadium was easy for Yankees fan Jerry Ramos, who lives just five blocks away and has loved the team since the 1980s.
“This is amazing,” Ramos said. “After so long, the Yankees were able to conquer one of their goals.”
He attributed the victory to hard work, resiliency and “a young group that is motivated and hungry to win,” helped by veteran players who understand the pressures of the postseason.
Ramos said he wants to get tickets for the first game of the World Series, which will be played Friday, Oct. 25 — though it was unclear Sunday morning not only as to whom the Yankees would face in the World Series, but where it would begin.
The Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers were set to play Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday night, with the Dodgers up 3 games to 2. A Dodgers series win would mean Los Angeles would have home-field advantage for the World Series because of a higher regular season winning percentage, and the Yankees would have to fly out to the West Coast for Game 1. But if the Mets come back to win the NLCS, the…
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