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Yankees donate $20,000 to church

Tracy Gordon

Quote of the Day: New York Yankees Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost

“When we heard what had happened to our neighbor, we wanted to reach out and enable them to continue their much-needed community service.”

-Lonn Trost, chief operating officer of the New York Yankees, commenting on the baseball team’s donation of $20,000 on Feb. 23 to the recently burglarized Greater Universal Baptist Church in the Bronx, N.Y. A robbery had forced the church to close its soup kitchen indefinitely.


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