Mike Piazza's home run in the first baseball game on New York soil after the attacks on September 11th helped a nation heal. #NeverForget 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/2jg08eYfRa
— SNY (@SNYtv) September 11, 2020
Missions fans saw Mr. Piazza hit a few balls out of the yard over on 36th and Culebra in 1992. Little did we know, it was our own personal preview of one of the great moments in American sports.