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The Paley Center for Media and YES Network are partnering on an event to celebrate a new YES app series about Yankees greats.

The Paley Museum will host “The Story of My Number: An Evening with New York Yankees Legends” on Monday, May 6 to commemorate the series premiere, an episode dedicated to Aaron Boone, the Yankees manager who famously hit a walk-off home run to slay the Red Sox in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS.

Hosted by Gracie Cashman, the series, “The Story of My Number,” will debut on the YES app on May 9.

The May 6 Paley Center event will feature a panel moderated by Yankees play-by-play broadcaster Michael Kay and will include Boone, Tino Martinez, Nick Swisher and Cashman.

“The New York Yankees are an integral part of the fabric of New York sports and of the city itself,” Maureen J. Reidy, the Paley Center for Media’s President and CEO, said in a statement.

“We are honored and thrilled to present this look at some of the most beloved players behind professional baseball’s most storied franchise, and we look forward to what is certain to be a grand slam conversation.”

Sponsored by the New York lottery, subsequent series episodes will debut on the YES app on Thursdays. They will cover Martinez, Swisher, Don Mattingly, Andy Pettitte and CC Sabathia.

The series promises to explore “the pivotal numbers that defined the careers of Yankees legends,” delving beyond the box score to capture their stories.

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Anthony Volpe has picked up right where he left off from his remarkable rookie season with the New York Yankees and has earned high praise from one MLB manager.

Miami Marlins manager Skip Schumaker heralded Volpe as an emerging superstar for his standout play through their start to the 2024 MLB campaign, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post:

“Volpe at shortstop is becoming a superstar in this league,” Schumaker said. “As much as I don’t like to watch it this series, it’s fun to watch just as a baseball fan the way he plays shortstop and the way he’s taking those at-bats.”

Volpe hit his second home run of the young campaign and equaled his RBI total of three runs driven in during the Yankees 7-0 win over the Marlins on Monday and shined throughout their early season series.

The reigning Gold Glove award winner is off to a blistering start to the 2024 MLB campaign. Not only is Volpe sporting a .967 fielding percentage, right in line with the .970 fielding percentage from his rookie season that earned him the top defensive honor at shortstop, but he’s also connecting at the plate.

The 22-year-old has a .375/.444/.600 slash line to his name. He’s also generated six RBIs as a brilliant support option from fifth through seventh in the Yankees’ batting order thus far.

Volpe has taken major strides as a more efficient hitter this season

Volpe’s efficacy at the plate was an area that he showed he could’ve used improvement in as a rookie. He did hit 21 home runs but his .209 batting average left something to be desired. Now, the tremendous uptick in efficiency, though small in sample size, is an encouraging marker for Yankees manager Aaron Boone to continue to help him maintain and for Marlins manager Schumaker to try and contain.

The Yankees are unequivocally the best team in baseball right now, and while OF Juan Soto is getting much of the attention for the impact he’s made, Volpe’s contributions are worth noting.