Celebrate Greek Heritage at Yankee Stadium!

Cultural pridefulness astatine Greek Heritage Night astatine Yankee Stadium. Credit: Andrew nyr, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0/Wikipedia

Join the National Hellenic Society (NHS) and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese – Direct Archdiocesan District for a peculiar nighttime of baseball, community, and taste pridefulness astatine Greek Heritage Night astatine Yankee Stadium!

The lawsuit volition instrumentality spot connected Friday, June 6, 2025, during the New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox crippled astatine Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY.

Credit: NHS

This memorable evening brings unneurotic Greeks, Greek-Americans, and philhellenes from crossed the portion to observe our shared practice successful 1 of the astir iconic venues successful sports.

A information of proceeds from summons income volition spell toward supporting 2 beloved initiatives: the Heritage Greece Program, which connects young Greek Americans to their roots done immersive trips to Greece, and Camp Saint Paul, a vibrant summertime campy that fosters faith, fellowship, and taste identity.

Special Bonus: All tickets purchased through the authoritative link see an exclusive Yankees headdress featuring the Greek emblem — a unsocial keepsake to commemorate the night!

The headdress features the Greek flag. Photo provided

Cody Bellinger, a prima MLB player, is of Greek descent, and his father, Clay Bellinger, adjacent played for the Greek National Baseball Team during the 2004 Athens Olympics. A information that makes this lawsuit adjacent much special.

NHS is the co-sponsor of the Greek Heritage lawsuit astatine Yankee Stadium

The National Hellenic Society (NHS), an relation of Greek American leaders, visionaries, and philanthropists, is astatine the forefront of efforts to support the adjacent procreation of Greek Americans engaged with Greece and their heritage.

NHS has been organizing the signature Heritage Greece Program, a two-week taste and acquisition immersion odyssey for accomplished Greek-American students to Greece.

NHS Chairman Drake G. Behrakis, a second-generation Greek, told Greek Reporter precocious that “our absorption is to support Greek civilization for the adjacent generation.”

“Many of the students person ne'er been to Greece. We connection them the acquisition of going to Greece and connecting with Greek students astatine the field of Deree.” Deree, besides known arsenic the American College of Greece, is located astatine Agia Paraskevi, a leafy suburb successful northbound Athens.

The extremity is to reconnect the participants with their heritage, roots, language, history, and traditions. They person a once-in-a-lifetime accidental to research their culture, arsenic good arsenic to place and larn astir the past ancient wrong the prism and discourse of modern Greece.

“They are interacting regular with Greek students. This helps successful making them recognize amended the Greek civilization and their peers successful Greece. They spell retired together, they devour together, they store together, they larn the mundane experiences of surviving successful the country,” Behrakis said.