"I figured I'd go say hi and maybe I could wake the spirits," superfan Pete Lombardo said Monday at the Gate of Heaven cemetery in Westchester County, decked out in full Ruth regalia with his wife and 22-month-old daughter. "Hopefully Ruth will go down to the Bronx and say, 'What's up guys?'"
The Bambino's gravesite has long been something of a mecca for the Yankees faithful. The Yankee legend, who died in 1948, has since cast a spell over the team's fanbase, most notably with a now-defunct Curse of the Bambino that allegedly kept the hated Red Sox from baseball's promised land for decades.
In recent days, the gravesite has been adorned with more than 50 baseballs - one with 'Go Yankees 2024' written on it - a tall boy can of Budweiser, an airline-sized bottle of Jack Daniels, a Yankee baseball hat, a mini batting helmet, an old leather baseball glove, two US flags and a handful of Mass cards.
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