Old-Timers Day returns to field with Yankees softball makeover

KANSAS CITY, Mo.— This year’s Old-Timers’ Day will actually feature a game at Yankee Stadium. It won’t be baseball, as it once was, but a group of retired Yankees will participate in a softball game this August, The Post confirmed, after the Old-Timers’ Day game had been replaced in recent years by a Q&A.

NJ Advance Media was first to report the plan for a softball exhibition. The last time the Yankees held a game for Old-Timers’ Day was in 2019, before the exhibition was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID.There were too many players dealing with injuries for a game to happen in 2022 and then the organization held Q&As the past two years — honoring the 25th anniversary of the 1998 World Series team in 2023 and the 15th anniversary of the 2009 championship in 2024. The Yankees have not yet released a list of players expected to play in the game or attend Old-Timers’ Day, though that typically happens closer to the event.

It remains to be seen whether Derek Jeter would play in a softball game, as the former captain has said he would not play in an Old-Timers’ Day game. “They’re not gonna see me hit again,” Jeter said last August.“No, I would be afraid I would hurt myself.

But that’s not saying the reason there’s no game is because I’m not playing....