Homestyle Bakes for the New York Yankees

Reggie Jackson, Rich “Goose” Gossage, Lou Piniella, Joe Torre and about fifty other Yankee “old timers” will be presented with a unique cake tonight created right here in Peekskill by

Homestyle was commissioned to create a custom celebratory cake for the New York Yankees 65^th annual Old-Timers’ dinner  tonight at the Hard Rock Café. The three-tiered cake features 28 Old Timer baseball cards along the bottom tier, the famous Hard Rock Cafe marquis and rock band paraphernalia on the second tier, and a simple pin-striped third tier. A good old-fashioned baseball sits atop the cake. 

“It is exciting to be doing our third-year challenge for the Yankees," said Rose Sanca, owner of Homestyle Desserts.

The bakery created a one of a kind Trophy Cake for the Yankees Old Timers game last year as well, and a cake shaped as a yacht for the team's 2009 Old Timer cruise event. Once Sanca recieved the request for the cake from the Yankees in April, she got to work on the conception.

"As soon as they were back in action they emailed us," Sanca said. "I thought the cards were such a good idea because it really makes it about the players, it personalizes it."

This year's cake was made by seven Homestyle employees, including Eileen Lawter, who carefuly selected the 28 baseball cards to feature on the bottom tier. They couldn't feature all the participating Old Timers, so Lawter considered which would look best based on the colors, placement of the players and other factors.

The New York Yankees official 65^th annual Old-Timers’ Day is on Sunday, June 26 at Yankee Stadium. Ceremonies will begin at 11:30 a.m. with a traditional Old-Timers’ game to follow, according to Yankees.com. Both will be aired on the YES network. The Yankees will then host the Colorado Rockies at 2:05 p.m

The Yankees report that the Old-Timers will be headlined by several members of past Yankees' World Series-winning clubs, including Hall-of-Famers Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, David Cone, Bill "Moose" Skowron and Bernie Williams.

For more on the Old Timers click here.

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