President Trump has held multiple calls with sports commissioners to encourage them to resume play — and several with ties to pro sports are among those he's asked to weigh in on how to reopen the economy.
President Trump stands during Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., last October.Tasos Katopodis/AFP via Getty Images
With the NBA and NHL seasons suspended, and Major League Baseball hitting pause mid-spring training, fans initially flocked to the classic games that ESPN and other sports networks resorted to re-airing to fill their schedules amid the coronavirus pandemic. "He knows the American people are yearning for the things we used to take for granted, sports being a big one of them," said Ari Fleischer. He now works in sports communications, but was White House press secretary on September 11, 2001, when terror attacks stopped sports and everything else.
Indeed, the return of baseball provided New York City — and the country at large — that fall. First, catcher Mike Piazza powered the Mets to a comeback win over their nemesis, the Atlanta Braves, with a late-inning home run at the first game back in Shea Stadium.
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