For most baseball fans, it’s really, really easy to dislike the New York Yankees.
Fortunately, right now is not one of those times.
Saturday, New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were gunned down in cold blood, seemingly as retaliation for the choking death of Eric Garner at the hands of police officers back in July. But with the senseless deaths of Ramos and Liu, we’re reminded of something the Yankees organization does.
After an NYPD officer is slain, the Yankee Silver Shield Foundation will step in and pay for the schooling of the kids left behind. Liu was recently married and had no children, but for Ramos, his two sons will be helped out by the foundation started by longtime Yankees owner, the late-George Steinbrenner.
According to the New York Daily News, Steinbrenner started Yankee Silver Shield Foundation in 1982 after seeing four children holding an American flag at the funeral of their father, a slain New York police office.
“Who’s going to take care of these kids,” Steinbrenner famously asked. “We are.”
The foundation has paid for the educations of thousands of children of fallen NYPD, FDNY, state police and Port Authority workers in the New York area, as well as 700-plus children who lost a parent in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Good work, Yankees.
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