MLB prepares tributes ahead of 9/11 Day of Service
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Major League Baseball will continue its tradition of honoring the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, with a series of tributes planned for Wednesday, 23 years to the day after the attacks.
In addition to teams holding pregame tributes around the league, all players, managers and coaches for the Mets and Yankees will have the option to wear NYC first-responder hats with their team logo on the side.
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Their opponents, the Blue Jays (facing the Mets) and Royals (Yankees) have the option to wear NYPD or FDNY caps during batting practice.
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All others in uniform around the league on Wednesday, including players, managers, coaches and umpires, will wear a memorial 9/11 ribbon patch on the right side of their hats. The Blue Jays will wear hats with customized ribbons featuring the Canadian and American flags.
Off the field, MLB employees in the Commissioner's Office will be at the Intrepid Air, Sea & Space Museum in New York to pack meals that will be distributed by the City Harvest food bank. Yankees pitcher Luke Weaver and Royals outfielder MJ Melendez will join the event, which is in commemoration of the federal 9/11 Day of Service, as will Yankees and Mets alums Dellin Betances and Bartolo Colon.
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The volunteer meal-packing project in New York is one of 18 taking place across the country on Wednesday, with the goal of packing 6 million non-perishable meals that will be delivered to Feeding America-affiliate food banks.
Online, the social media channels of MLB and its teams will post messages of support and remembrance, while MLB.com, team sites, the MLB app and MLBTogether.com will provide coverage of the various ceremonies throughout the day, along with columns, news articles, photos and more.