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Enjoy a game at Yankee Stadium with your youth sports team and participate in a pregame parade on the warning track!

Sun. May 28 vs. Athletics • 1:05 pm Fri. June 9 vs. Orioles • 7:35 pm

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The Yankees are pleased to offer specially-priced tickets to youth sports players, coaches, friends and family.

All youth parade participants will receive a Fan Appreciation Ticket Voucher valid for two (2) tickets to select New York Yankees 2017 regular season home games.

PREGAME PARADE Join fellow youth sports players for a special opportunity to parade on the warning track before the game.

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Please note that the parade is for players and coaches only. All other parents, siblings, friends and family are encouraged to watch the celebration from their seats.

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Players must wear team-issued uniforms or jerseys in order to participate in the parade.

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Coaches must wear uniform jerseys and/or hats in order to participate in the parade.

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Youth participants must be between the ages of 6 and 14 years old.

SPECIAL TICKET OFFER: SAVE UP TO 50 PERCENT OFF Tickets must be purchased in advance from the Yankees Group Sales & Service Department.

Due to limited availability, requests will be fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis. You will be contacted with more information after your registration to participate in the parade has been confirmed.

FUNDRAISING OPPORTUNITIES Fundraising opportunities are also available. Please contact the Yankees Group Sales & Service Department for more information.

To purchase tickets, contact the Yankees Group Sales & Service Department via email at groups@yankees.com, call (212) YANKEES or visit yankees.com/parade.

There is no cost to participate in the parade. However, each parade participant must have a valid game ticket to the Yankees game scheduled to be played on the parade date, in order to participate in this exclusive opportunity.

Time, opponent, date and team rosters and lineups, including the Yankees’ roster and lineup, are subject to change.

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This event may be canceled or postponed without notice. In the event the Yankees cancel this event due to weather-related or game-related issues, you may receive an email via yankees.com. The Yankees reserve the right, at any time, to modify, and/or revise these terms and conditions, in its sole and absolute discretion.

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BY CHRISTY HINKO cHinKo@antonmediagroup.com

As a native Chicagoan, I’ve always maintained that Chicago is still tops on my list for its museums, of course, food. And when people ask for a summation of the Windy City as compared to the Big Apple, I say it’s a little, big city. Although Chicagoland reaches and stretches for miles, just like Manhattan’s boroughs, as a shortstay visitor to Chicago you can fill your couple-day itinerary within just a few square miles.

Here are my top 10 favorite places in Chicago:

1. Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. The museum hosts 1.5 million guests annually. Its collection features iconic works such as Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, Pablo Picasso’s The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and Grant Wood’s American Gothic.

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2. Millennium Park

annually stop by to view early fossils, learn of past and current cultures and learn of today’s urgent conservation needs.

A first-time visit to Chicago isn’t complete without a stop at Millennium Park, built to celebrate the second millennium. It is a prominent civic center near the city’s Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre section of northwestern Grant Park. The park features a variety of public art.

3. Shedd Aquarium

Shedd Aquarium is one of the world’s largest indoor aquariums, housing more than 8,000 aquatic animals. Opened is 1930, it is also the firs inland aquarium with a permanent saltwater fish collection holds more than five million gallons of water.

4. Buckingham Fountain

Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark, centered in Grant Park. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the

6. Navy Pier

world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona Fountain at the Palace of Versailles. It operates from April to October, with regular water shows and evening color-light shows.

During the winter, the fountain is decorated with festival lights.

5. The Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum is a natural history museum and is one of the largest in the world of its kind.

More than two million visitors

Extending out more than 3,000 feet onto Lake Michigan, Navy Pier offers plenty of family-friendly entertainment and attracts more than nine million visitors annually.

Don’t forget to ride the Ferris wheel while you’re here.

8. Museum of Science and Industry Among the museum’s exhibits are a full-size replica coal mine, German submarine U-505 captured during World War II, a 3,500-square-foot (330 m2) model railroad, the first diesel-powered streamlined stainless-steel passenger train (Pioneer Zephyr) and the Apollo 8 spacecraft that carried the first humans to orbit the moon.

9. Skydeck Chicago Step outside the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, at Willis Tower’s Skydeck Chicago. At 1,353 feet in the air, more than two million people make their way here each year for a glimpse of the city from the Skydeck Ledge’s glass boxes, which extend more than four feet from the building.

10. Lincoln Park Zoo Lincoln Park Zoo is a 35-acre zoo, founded in 1868, making it among the oldest of zoos in North America. It is also one of a few free admission zoos in the nation.

While you are visiting, you must try a breaded steak sandwich from Ricobene’s, a hot dog from Portillo’s, Eli’s cheesecake, a Maxwell Street Polish from Jim’s Original, an Italian beef sandwich from Al’s Italian Beef, deep dish pizza from Gino’s East or Giordano’s and Garrett’s Popcorn.

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At 1,000 feet about the famed Magnificent Mile, 360 Chicago observation deck offers 360-degree views of city skyline and Lake Michigan. The observation deck is also home of the thrilling and exhilarating TILT experience—an enclosed moving platform that tilts you over the edge of the iconic John Hancock building.

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Small State, Big History, Great Beaches

BY JOE SCOTCHIE

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Rhode Island—”Little Rhody”—is a small state with a big history. Rhode Island was the first colony to declare its independence from the British Crown on May 4, 1776, two months before the formal document was presented. After the Revolutionary War, it was the last state to ratify the Constitution. Ever since then, Rhode Island has continued to make its mark on the nation’s history. Its founder, Roger Williams, is one of the key figures in the history of religious freedom in the United States. Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 for his religious beliefs, Williams moved slightly east and founded the Providence Plantation, which later grew into the state of Rhode Island.

This little state is one of numerous other “firsts,” many of them instrumental in the rise of the United States.

The Slater Mill in Pawtucket is considered the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. It was the first commercially successful cotton-spinning mill with a mechanized power system in America.

Williams played a major role in the formation of religious freedom in the United States. And so it is fitting that the first Baptist Church in America was founded in Providence in 1638.

In addition, the Touro Synagogue, the first synagogue in America, was founded in Newport in 1763. That

synagogue made history when George Washington visited it on Aug. 17, 1790 and gave a stirring speech declaring that the nearly-formed nation “gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

The Ocean State

Rhode Island isn’t called The Ocean State for nothing. Miles and miles of beautiful beaches are the state’s greatest attractions. Rhode Island journalist Laury Coleman has given an extensive rundown on Rhode Island’s top beaches.

“Rhode Island’s beaches are a big part of why people live and visit here,” Coleman wrote. “Once you cough up the money for your season beach pass ($60 per year for a resident, $120 for a non-resident in 2015), going to the beach is an economical way to spend a family day. Even if you pay as you go, the most a day will cost you is $28 for a non-resident, $14 for a resident, plus provisions.”

Coleman added that families can purchase a season beach pass at the entrance booth of any state beach during operating times, or at the Division of Parks and Recreation Headquarters located at 1100 Tower Hill Rd., North Kingstown, Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer season.

Coleman maintains that the best beach for children is Galilee, aka Salty Brine State Beach, in Narragansett.

“Galilee, located in a small, picturesque fishing port, has

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everything a visitor with children could want in a beach,” she writes.

“There are few things more thrilling than watching the fleet of trawlers and yachts return with the day’s catch, passing within yards of where you’re swimming at the beach. You can fish from the rocks, then walk down to the docks to see the day’s catch unloaded and processed. The beach is located inside the Harbor of Refuge, so the surf, if any, is very gentle, the slope is gradual, and the sand is soft, yet firm.”

In addition, the top beach for “beating the crowds” is East Beach, Charlestown.

“East Beach has no nearby parking areas and has only a tiny parking lot of its own that holds 100 cars,” Coleman notes. “You must arrive ridiculously early, get lucky, walk far, or go late. Attendants will not allow anyone to wait for a parking space to open up, but arriving after 3 p.m. (after 4 p.m. on Sundays) will usually get you a spot. Once inside, you’re in for a treat. East Beach is part of a beautiful, three-mile-long barrier beach that protects Ninigret Pond from the Atlantic Ocean...If you have children, instead of heading to the beach itself, walk to the opposite end of the parking lot to the shore of Ninigret Pond. There is another small beach there, although unlike East Beach, there are no lifeguards.

The pond is shallow—only a couple of feet deep as far as 100 feet from the shore—and the water is warm.”

Continuing our tour, Coleman dubs Goosewing/South Shore Beach, Little Compton as the state’s most scenic beach.

“Goosewing is a nature conservancy property, a farm that sweeps down a hillside to the sea,” she writes. “Goosewing can be accessed only through South Shore Beach, Little Compton’s adjoining town beach.

A big advantage to South Shore is that you can back your car right up to the beach itself, walk over a

five- to six-foot strip of large beach stones, and plunk all your gear on the sand. The sand is generally only wide enough for one blanket, so you won’t have anyone in front of you or behind you. This is great for watching children play in the water...Swimming is usually excellent at South Shore.”

For walking and surfing, try Narragansett Town Beach.

“Narragansett Town Beach also doubles as the best beach for surfing,” Coleman writes. “You can even take surfing lessons here...

The walkable portion extends from the mouth of the Pettaquamscut

River to the north to the wall of Narragansett Pier to the south. It’s a long, flat, smooth crescent of sand.

Although it passes private beach clubs and homes, in Rhode Island all land below the mean high tide line is public land...There is much to look at while walking this beach, from the surfers along the pier side to the Rhode Island celebrities that might be spotted on the sand at The Dunes Club. You can watch ships enter the bay or admire the beautiful architecture that lines the shore. It’s also a great beach for swimming.”

Finally, Coleman declares Fred Benson Town Beach/Crescent Beach, Block Island as the top beach in the entire state.

If we had to choose just one beach as the best, this long, perfect sweep of sand just outside Old Harbor would be a worthy choice,” she writes. “The surf ranges from modest to magnificent. The sand is white powder, silk underfoot, both on the beach and in the water. At one end of the beach is a picturesque, Victorian-era seaside town. At the other are dramatic bluffs. Along the back of the beach are classic New England sand dunes. The water is usually crystal clear, and it’s less crowded than most other Rhode Island beaches.”

(Source: “Rhode Island Beaches,” Laury Coleman. Quahog.org.)

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