The Yankees want 10-year-old Cassidy Slater to know she’s not alone, as she described in painstaking detail in a selfie video posted to Facebook about her experience as a victim of bullying.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone and 23 players, mirroring the poignant format of Slater’s video, shared hand-written messages of support in a two-and-a-half minute clip that ended with Boone suggesting Slater was invited to meet the team in person.
Slater’s story, which she shared on social media last week unbeknownst to her parents, caught the attention of celebrities, like Hugh Jackman, in addition to the Yankees, after she described suffering from four years of abuse at her elementary school in Scranton, Penn.