TAMPA — The occasions have become as emotionally-charged as any in the baseball year. During the All-Star Game and World Series Game 3, stadiums full of fans rise as one and hold up Stand Up To Cancer cards, writing in the name of a friend or family member fighting some form of cancer.
“They’ve become very powerful moments,” Pat Courtney, MLB’s chief communication officer, was saying Saturday morning. “Everybody knows somebody who is battling cancer.”
The moment was never more poignant than last October at Citi Field, home not only to the Mets but Shannon Forde, a PR staff member and one of the most beloved women ever to work in baseball.