More Than A Game: Al Leiter On Baseball’s Healing Power

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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World Series Champion Al Leiter highlights the new documentary, Never Forget: How Baseball Healed the Nation After 9/11, as he explains the shift from feeling that a baseball game was insignificant to realizing that the sport served as a necessary distraction for a grieving city after the 9/11 attacks. He recounts the intense atmosphere and heavy security at the first game back at Shea Stadium, where a solemn environment eventually shifted into a moment of collective hope. Al also describes the Mets players' devotion and their defiance of league rules to continue wearing hats representing New York City’s first responders throughout the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.2	Welcome to the Untold Story podcast.
0:44.6	I'm Martha McCallum.
0:45.8	It's terrific to have you with us.
0:47.8	And the subject today is one that is very near and dear to my heart.
0:54.6	And I know all of us are thinking about the fact that we're entering that period where we're about to, when it gets to be September 11th, it's going to be the 25th anniversary, which is just incredible to believe.
1:05.1	But one of the great things about it is that there have been so many inspiring stories that have come from it.
1:11.7	And certainly the work that Tunnel to Towers does is a huge part of that healing process.
1:16.8	And we've seen how, what great care they take of our first responders who were at 9-11.
1:22.1	And then after that, in the War on Terror and beyond.
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