Williams added that if he’d been requested to do so, he too would have worn a black armband.
Every once in a while a person or an act weaves together the various, seemingly unrelated, strands of your life into a beautiful whole, ultimately renewing your faith in your convictions. Learning of the powerful gesture of Ken Holtzman, Mike Epstein and Reggie Jackson on September 6, 1972, touched me in this most extraordinary way. Judaism, Zionism and baseball all seemed to dramatically and magically coalesce, if only for a single moment.
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