Fifteen years ago today, the world changed.
It's nearly impossible to believe fifteen years have past. Want to feel old? Kids starting college this year can't remember 9/11. More frighteningly, a substantial number of voters in the election this year have no memories of the way things were before 9/11.
Baseball and 9/11
How Major League Baseball Responded to 9/11
Rob Neyer wrote this five years ago, and much of it still holds true. American (and other coalition members) troops are still in the Middle East; God Bless America is still ubiquitous at the ballpark (at least on Sundays.