Latest / OneLegUpAlex Media / THE ONELEGUPALEX AWARD GOES TO PARTICPANTS OF THE YANKEES PINSTRIPE 5K! Reaction from Haley Swindal and Caleb Vazquez (event on 11/15/25)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: All right, well over the weekend. Over the weekend, the
- 0:05Speaker 1: one Leg Up Award definitely went to all the participants
- 0:08Speaker 1: of the Pinstripe five K put on by the New
- 0:11Speaker 1: York Yankees. That's right, Thousands lined the concourse of Yankee
- 0:17Speaker 1: Stadium to run it end to end, including the warning track.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Thanks to the Yankees, the New York Runners Club, Double
- 0:25Speaker 1: Play Baseball Sequel, a tampon company, and Securitas, the official
- 0:31Speaker 1: security provider of the New York Yankees and Yankee Stadium.
- 0:35Speaker 1: And so thanks to my mom and my stepdad, my dad,
- 0:39Speaker 1: Vic and my mom, I got to go and be
- 0:43Speaker 1: part of the Pinstripes five K at Yankee Stadium. It
- 0:48Speaker 1: was like a homecoming of sorts. It was like a
- 0:53Speaker 1: feeling of running for my dad, running for mister Steinbrunner,
- 0:58Speaker 1: with my mom and Vic also there in spirit, and
- 1:04Speaker 1: it hit home how much of homecoming it was. When
- 1:08Speaker 1: I'm in the top deck of Yankee Stadium doing my
- 1:10Speaker 1: run and Hailey Swindle, the granddaughter of George Steinberner, says hey, Alex,
- 1:16Speaker 1: and I'm like, wait, who's that And it's Haley. She
- 1:20Speaker 1: stopped me midrun, got a quick picture and then we
- 1:23Speaker 1: caught up after to talk about what it means to
- 1:25Speaker 1: the community and the Yankee engagement in the community to
- 1:28Speaker 1: put on this inaugural Yankee Pinstripe five K. Well, I'm
- 1:35Speaker 1: here with a very special friend for twenty five plus years,
- 1:38Speaker 1: Haley Swindle, the granddaughter of George Steinberner. First of all,
- 1:42Speaker 1: your grandfather wanted the community to be involved with the Yanks.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Doesn't it epitomize that, Haley.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Yes, he would have loved this today. It was so
- 1:49Speaker 2: cool to be with everybody as people were running onto
- 1:51Speaker 2: the warning track for the first time, and to get
- 1:53Speaker 2: to explore the stadium. Even me, who's been in here
- 1:56Speaker 2: so many times my whole life, got to see parts
- 1:58Speaker 2: of the stadium I hadn't seen before, and it was
- 2:00Speaker 2: my first time ever running in here.
- 2:01Speaker 1: I was gonna say, they've had runs here before, but
- 2:03Speaker 1: not like this.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Yeah, pins tried five.
- 2:06Speaker 1: There's gonna be one in May as well, but I'm.
- 2:07Speaker 2: Not missaying that's what I'm hearing. The details I'm not
- 2:10Speaker 2: sure of yet, but I hope we do many more.
- 2:12Speaker 2: I know that we've been in the stadium forever.
- 2:14Speaker 1: The terrain of this place.
- 2:15Speaker 2: You don't realize that. Alex I don't know. It was
- 2:18Speaker 2: fun though. It was really really fun, and I think,
- 2:21Speaker 2: as I said, the warning track was my favorite. I
- 2:23Speaker 2: thought that was really really magical, and then of course
- 2:25Speaker 2: running up top on the terrace was really really name
- 2:27Speaker 2: getting the overall and that's where we found each other.
- 2:29Speaker 2: I saw he was like, Alex, I think I scared you.
- 2:32Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I think we were missed by.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Didn't ask about Aaron Judge when he is third m
- 2:36Speaker 1: VP for the Yankees.
- 2:37Speaker 2: What does he mean to this organization from your perspective, God,
- 2:39Speaker 2: she's incredible. He's just incredible on the field and off
- 2:42Speaker 2: he's he's an amazing person and he's an incredible player
- 2:45Speaker 2: and hush contestant.
- 2:48Speaker 1: Now we all know, how does he ever think about Dad? Like?
- 2:51Speaker 3: What is his take when he's running his team?
- 2:52Speaker 1: Do you think of his dad? Oh?
- 2:54Speaker 2: Us, I think how's doing a great job. I've never
- 2:56Speaker 2: talked to him about that stuff, but I am proud
- 2:58Speaker 2: of him. And you have.
- 2:59Speaker 1: The whole involved, which is so specially.
- 3:02Speaker 2: We are we are. I'm primarily involved with my mother
- 3:05Speaker 2: and my cousin Julia, with the with the foundation. That's
- 3:07Speaker 2: so we're always trying to do.
- 3:10Speaker 1: And that was a great gallop this year as well.
- 3:11Speaker 2: The Foundations, thank you so much. Our homecoming dinner is
- 3:15Speaker 2: a fun part of what we do. But the kid's
- 3:18Speaker 2: all to help the.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Kids in the Bronx community, which we And then I
- 3:20Speaker 1: know you're involved with the community in general. So what's
- 3:22Speaker 1: that like for you to sort of embody what your
- 3:24Speaker 1: granddads you. It's my great honor that we have the
- 3:28Speaker 1: best community in the world to be able.
- 3:30Speaker 2: To get back to the community that that gives us
- 3:32Speaker 2: so much. And now you're on Broadway with damn Yankees.
- 3:35Speaker 2: How'd that go? No, we're coming to Broadway in the fall. Uh,
- 3:38Speaker 2: And we just finished up in d C. It's about
- 3:40Speaker 2: the Orioles and the Yikes, and some of the Orioles
- 3:43Speaker 2: leadership came and of course the Yanks have been super
- 3:45Speaker 2: supportive and that's really excited.
- 3:47Speaker 1: And I know you just went off with your Broadway career,
- 3:49Speaker 1: which is so cool to watch.
- 3:50Speaker 2: By the way, Yeah, I always loved My grandpa loved
- 3:52Speaker 2: Broadway as well, so I did not know that shared. Yeah,
- 3:55Speaker 2: he produced the Broadway shows before he came.
- 3:58Speaker 1: I know.
- 3:59Speaker 2: That's no, that was his big moment too. Yes, he
- 4:01Speaker 2: was quite the performer as.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Well sorry, Haley, Well good luck with everything and continue
- 4:04Speaker 1: the great work as well.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Thanks Alexis. Was fun today. I enjoyed ce and did
- 4:08Speaker 2: run the race with him.
- 4:09Speaker 1: It was very cool to run into her and it was,
- 4:12Speaker 1: as I say, like a homecoming of sorts. I mean,
- 4:14Speaker 1: I remember watching Yankee Baseball World Series Baseball in the
- 4:18Speaker 1: suites with her and her brother Stephen, and uh, just
- 4:24Speaker 1: awesome family. A great family that has run really a
- 4:28Speaker 1: dynasty here in New York since nineteen seventy three, and
- 4:32Speaker 1: they continue the legacy of George Steinberg. Now. One guy
- 4:36Speaker 1: who totally dressed the nines wearing number ninety nine was
- 4:42Speaker 1: Caleb ak NYC Money three oh one, and I got
- 4:47Speaker 1: a tangent to catch up with him after our race
- 4:50Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium over the weekend last time I was
- 4:52Speaker 1: wearing je holding.
- 4:55Speaker 3: Five.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Kort, you got to represent your and Judge running this.
- 4:58Speaker 3: Did you feel his energy to be running the I did?
- 5:00Speaker 3: I think I brought that energy, you know what I'm saying.
- 5:02Speaker 3: I mean, uh, you know, it's quite an experience, you
- 5:05Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like, you know, to be back
- 5:07Speaker 3: in the stadium, but it's it's kind of empty, but
- 5:09Speaker 3: you know, the people came out here to I've never
- 5:11Speaker 3: seen it without the field, and that was also my
- 5:15Speaker 3: favorite part.
- 5:16Speaker 2: I'm saying, what was the hardest part.
- 5:18Speaker 1: Of the season.
- 5:19Speaker 3: Oh, definitely the stairs man. Nobody was watching, so I
- 5:22Speaker 3: walked out. But I mean, yeah, it wasn't as easy
- 5:26Speaker 3: as I thought it was gonna be. But you know,
- 5:28Speaker 3: he being on the field because you've been doing a.
- 5:30Speaker 2: Lot more on this stuff. I'm not exactly what they
- 5:32Speaker 2: keep doing this.
- 5:32Speaker 3: The next one is in May, so uh, you know,
- 5:35Speaker 3: it's definitely gonna be warmer. It's gonna be during the season.
- 5:39Speaker 1: So I love the opening the stadium up in general,
- 5:41Speaker 1: different things, a lot of practice stuff.
- 5:44Speaker 3: I love, of course, any experience here, I'll beat here,
- 5:47Speaker 3: you know, all.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Right, what does it take to bring us back and
- 5:49Speaker 1: reading to the stadium?
- 5:50Speaker 3: I mean, look, it's uh, it's gonna.
- 5:52Speaker 2: Take quite a lot.
- 5:54Speaker 3: I think the pitching is already taken care of, in
- 5:56Speaker 3: my opinion, but you know, we're gonna have to take
- 6:00Speaker 3: care of some things. Hopefully Cody comes back almost we'll
- 6:03Speaker 3: see what's you know, we'll see what we do in
- 6:04Speaker 3: the midfield. We gotta tightly shake some things up, but
- 6:08Speaker 3: I think we got a little bit of time to
- 6:09Speaker 3: think about all of that. It still November, so trick
- 6:12Speaker 3: with are you a runner?
- 6:13Speaker 2: By day?
- 6:13Speaker 3: Dar a girlfriend, she's the runner, and she kind of
- 6:17Speaker 3: encouraged me to do this because you know, I kind
- 6:19Speaker 3: of see what she does on a weekly, monthly basis.
- 6:23Speaker 3: So I wanted to drive.
- 6:24Speaker 1: Somethin and the Giants five kale.
- 6:27Speaker 3: I did the Giant five.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Ok, this one was hardy, No, this one was.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Tough, this one was all right, Kale awesome. Yeh know.
- 6:33Speaker 1: He wore pin stripes all up and down. We're no
- 6:37Speaker 1: nine Yankee pin stripes. But I accessed twenty twenty four,
- 6:41Speaker 1: twenty five and then of course here at the Yankee
- 6:44Speaker 1: pin Tripe five K literally being uh the pin stripes
- 6:50Speaker 1: of the pin Tripe five K. That being said, other notables.
- 6:56Speaker 1: I met a guy named Dave. He actually ran the
- 6:58Speaker 1: marathon and the five K weeks apart. That was pretty cool.
- 7:02Speaker 1: And of course my friend Elle running the course with
- 7:05Speaker 1: her was awesome, and just pacing myself taking the sights
- 7:11Speaker 1: and sounds of Yankee Stadium watching from the top deck
- 7:14Speaker 1: as runners were literally doing their two laps. It was
- 7:17Speaker 1: quite a sight to see and if you're interested. They
- 7:20Speaker 1: do have one in May of twenty twenty six, so
- 7:23Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a look at that. Steinbernerfield also has
- 7:26Speaker 1: one in February. Maybe we'll get down there for that.
- 7:28Speaker 1: But that being said, what a special, special day, and
- 7:34Speaker 1: thinking to mom and my stepdad and making it impossible
- 7:37Speaker 1: and to all the runners. And by the way, Caleb
- 7:39Speaker 1: and Haley were seemingly shouting out my name from the
- 7:44Speaker 1: Delta lounge outside there, and so I was saying to myself,
- 7:49Speaker 1: as a kid growing up, wouldn't you want your name
- 7:51Speaker 1: yellowed out at Yankee Stadium? And it made me feel
- 7:55Speaker 1: very special heading in those home stretches of the warning
- 7:58Speaker 1: track portion of that course. We'll see you back there
- 8:02Speaker 1: again in May twenty twenty sixth I guarantee that as
- 8:05Speaker 1: today's one Leg Up Award goes to all the runners
- 8:09Speaker 1: of the Yankees Pinstripes five K