Yankee great helped bring in holiday season in the Bronx

 Former New York Yankee Mickey Rivers helped the Bronx Botanical Gardens launch their holiday season last week.

-Photo by Talisman Brolin

Rivers (far right), the former center fielder who won two World Series with the Bronx Bombers in 1978 and 1979, joined a handful of elected officials, including Assemblymen Marcos Crespo (far left) and Jeffrey Dinowitz (second from right) and state Senator Jose Serrano (second from left), to help bring in the holidays.

Dinowitz turned on the lights for the Botanical Gardens' menorah.  -Photo by Talisman Brolin