When you’re elected into the HOF have you decided what hat you will wear?
Some of Mike Piazza’s 10-10-220 commercials (early 2000s?)
Mike Piazza, John Franco, and David Wright visit New York firefighters - 9/9/11
The Braves Remember 9/11 - The First Game Back in NY: Mets and Braves
Tom Glavine: It went to a different place emotionally than we really thought or had really kind of come to grips with how it was going to all play out.
John Smoltz: Nobody had a script. Nobody knew what was going to happen. You know, hugging another player or shaking hands, or doing whatever it was in a competitive environment. It was a single night where you knew no matter what happened, It was okay.
Chipper Jones: The fans they said, you know, we need this for our own piece of mind, for our own good. Give us three hours of good entertainment to take our minds off of everything. It was only fitting that the idol Mike Piazza hits a home run in the bottom of the 8th to win it for them.
I said it after the game, you know, It’s really the only time that I didn’t really mind losing a game.
Mark Derosa: It was just one of those moments where we realized that swing was bigger than what we were out on the field for. It was supposed to happen like that. I believe that. They were supposed to win that game. Their hero was supposed to hit a home run in that situation.
