NY/NJ Metropolitan Area 2025-2026 Deaf Awareness Sports Events | Stadium Journey
Gary Noll
Gary Noll, born Deaf in a New Jersey Deaf household, is a huge New Jersey/New York Sports fan. He proposes and raises awareness of Deaf and ASL (American Sign Language) sports events. Gary is an advocate of accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion, including promoting captioning and ASL communication technology during NJ/NY metropolitan sporting events.
Metropolitan New Jersey/New York Sports Stadiums and Their Efforts to Host Deaf Awareness Events in 2025 and 2026:
- Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
The New York Yankees baseball team will host its second annual Deaf Awareness Event on September 23 and 27, 2025. Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing fans can purchase special event tickets, which include a Yankee ASL baseball cap.
Last year, the Yankees had over 600 fans in attendance for their first annual Deaf event, where the organization handed out a Yankee ASL t-shirt and a performer signed (ASL) the national anthem.
This year’s expected participants include Gallaudet University, NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf), RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology), Lexington School for the Deaf, American Society of Deaf Children, NY School for the Deaf-Fanwood, and others.
