New York & The Value of Baseball
New York University president, John Sexton oversees more than 40 thousand students comments on the similarities between baseball and religion. John Sexton states :"Baseball is a lot like religion. Both have there own sacred relics, prophets, and rituals and there is a kind of timelessness to the it."
"Yanks learned their importance on 9/11"
September 11th, 2001 was a tragedy and the New York Yankees on winning the world series was a united city effort to watch and have a distraction of all the devastation and lives that were lost that day. The Yankees may not have been able to help heal the wounds inflicted on families as a result of the events of September 11th, but they were able to provide a distraction. No matter how momentary it may have been -- to those people affected by the attack watching a baseball game was something else to focus on. Through the tough times of the relief process, the Yankees comment on how they will never forget their importance and experience at this time. They played games but their role was to give families some source of relief from the stress at this time. The New York Yankees helped unified the city through this crisis.
Source: MLB article: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1651279/
Source Video: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2013/04/26/april-26-2013-baseball-and-religion/16067/
September 11th, 2001 was a tragedy and the New York Yankees on winning the world series was a united city effort to watch and have a distraction of all the devastation and lives that were lost that day. The Yankees may not have been able to help heal the wounds inflicted on families as a result of the events of September 11th, but they were able to provide a distraction. No matter how momentary it may have been -- to those people affected by the attack watching a baseball game was something else to focus on. Through the tough times of the relief process, the Yankees comment on how they will never forget their importance and experience at this time. They played games but their role was to give families some source of relief from the stress at this time. The New York Yankees helped unified the city through this crisis.
Source: MLB article: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/1651279/
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