Earlier this week, ESPN2 aired “Ticket Home,” a new episode of their E:60 documentary series. “Ticket Home” focuses on Barry Rosen, a baseball fan who was caught up in the Iran Hostage Crisis of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Rosen grew up a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, but when the Dodgers left for sunny California, he became a Mets fan once the team was founded in 1962. He spent most of his early adult life travelling to and working in the Middle East, specifically Iran, after joining the Peace Corps. While working in the U.
“Ticket Home” shows the power baseball has beyond the field
