WASHINGTON – Brad Holman, after playing pro baseball, returned to his home in Wichita to work for Boeing.
“I worked at Boeing for about five years as a mechanic and ironically I am still there at work on 9/11 when those planes smashed into the World Trade Center,” the Nationals’ pitching coordinator told Federal Baseball. “Here I am working on airplanes at the same time they are smashing into buildings.”
The ensuing decrease in air travel ultimately cost Holman his job – and helped spark his return to professional baseball as a coach.