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Mission would have been the largest British parachute drop on operations since the Suez crisis of 1956

70-year-old has the thrill of a lifetime as Yankees bat girl for a night Gwen Goldman came out swinging on Monday night, ready to spend the next nine innings as the New York Yankees bat girl. In 1961, Goldman sent a letter to the Yankees then-general manager, Roy Hamey, inquiring about becoming a bat girl. He replied that baseball is "dominated by men [and] a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout." Sixty years later, Goldmans daughter wrote an email to the Yankees, mak...