When the morning of September 11th came, many of us just thought of it as any other day, ready for the usual daily grind. Many of us baseball fans were anxious about the pennant races as the 2001 baseball season wound down to the last few games. But with the falling of the World Trade Center towers, everything stopped, everything became different. All the usual minuscule worries we found to be so paramount suddenly became negligible and unimportant. A sense of universal mourning fell over the United States; a feeling of disillusionment sunk into the hearts of millions. Suddenly, our world was changed forever by those shocking and unnerving events. It was a dreadful jolt to all our systems and it was all so surreal..
Then, baseball returned.
Although the pain in the soul of America did not go away, doubtful if it ever fully would, baseball not only gave us something to watch other than the latest at ground zero. It allowed a country to begin the healing process through America’...
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