As Brian Cashman’s daughter, Gracie Cashman grew up asking Yankees questions.
The 25-year-old was born in 1998, her dad’s first year as the Yankees’ general manager, and lived through the franchise’s Joe Torre, Joe Girardi and ongoing Aaron Boone eras.
“We used to pepper my dad with questions,” said Gracie, who is the oldest of Cashman’s two kids. “Absurd questions like, ‘What player would you want to take on a family vacation?’ When you’re a kid, you’re not all that interested in who’s the best player. We wanted to know who was the funniest, who was the craziest. We wanted to know who they were as people.”
She’s now able to find out the answers to some of those questions herself. Gracie is the host of a new YES App interview series, “The Story of My Number,” in which she speaks with athletes about prominent numbers in their careers and lives.
The show, premiering Monday at Manhattan’s Paley Museum and debuting Thursday on both the YES App and YES Network, is set to include episodes with Boone, Don Mattingly, Andy Pettitte, CC Sabathia, Tino Martinez and Nick Swisher.
Officially titled “The Story of My Number Presented by New York Lottery,” the series features Boone in its first episode, with the Yankees manager speaking about his walk-off home run against Boston’s Tim Wakefield in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS; his multi-generational baseball family; and his health battles.
“I knew that Aaron Boone had [undergone] heart surgeries, only because obviously he and my dad are quite close, so that was a topic of conversation,” Gracie said. “But I’ve never heard him really talk about it at length publicly, about what it meant to him or his family, those thoughts and emotions going into it.”
Gracie studied musical theater at Northwestern University, where she performed in productions of “She Loves Me” and “The Cherry Orchard,” before graduating in 2021.
Now pursuing a career in entertainment, Grace hosted a forthcoming baseball reality show, “The Tryout,” before landing the job with “The Story of My Number,” which will release its future episodes Thursdays on the YES App.
“They had such amazing careers that they get asked about so often … that their life story is often kind of drowned out by that,” Gracie said of the show’s interview subjects. “They have so many stories that we got to talk about or dive into that have either been just a blip on the radar of their public image or not talked about at all.”