When the morning of September 11th came, many of us just thought of it as any other day, ready for the the usual daily grind, 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 became different, all the usual minuscule worries we found to be so paramount suddenly became negligible. A sense of universal mourning fell over the United States; a feeling of disillusionment sunk into the hearts of millions. There was a depressed state of an entire nation, everywhere you went was the morbid news, the gruesome daily updates on a horrific tragedy.
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, but it allowed a country to begin the healing process through America’s game, coming together as a country on the fields of major league b...
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