{"id":1638844,"date":"2022-09-11T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638844"},"modified":"2022-09-11T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T23:50:00","slug":"9-11-tragedy-as-ex-major-leaguer-turned-cop-dies-en-route-to-ground-zero-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/9-11-tragedy-as-ex-major-leaguer-turned-cop-dies-en-route-to-ground-zero-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Tragedy As Ex-Major Leaguer-Turned Cop Dies En Route To Ground Zero Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F9-11-tragedy-as-ex-major-leaguer-turned-cop-dies-en-route-to-ground-zero-ceremony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/see-it-mickey-mantle-baseball-card-with-mysterious-history-shatters-records-at-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Major League Baseball<\/a> pitcher who retired to become a police officer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a> died in a car crash Sunday morning on his way to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-marks-21-years-since-9-11-terrorist-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9\/11 memorial ceremony<\/a> in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Varvaro, who spent six years as a reliever with the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox before retiring in 2016 and becoming a police officer with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was 37. The car crash occurred in New Jersey as he made his way to Ground Zero, where terrorists took down the Twin Towers 21 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply saddened on the passing of former Braves pitcher Anthony Varvaro,\u201d the Braves said in a statement. \u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with his family and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RIP to former Braves, Mariners &#038; Red Sox pitcher Anthony Varvaro, who was a New York Port Authority police officer. He was killed today in a car accident while on the way to a September 11 memorial event. He was 37 years old. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7pdlpI8w6\">https:\/\/t.co\/i7pdlpI8w6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RIP Baseball (@rip_mlb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rip_mlb\/status\/1569042913270669313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Details involving the crash were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Hampton, the baseball coach at St. John\u2019s University, where Varvaro player college baseball, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/34573298\/former-mlb-pitcher-anthony-varvaro-dies-car-crash-way-9-11-memorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told The Associated Press<\/a> that Varvaro\u2019s death was devastating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only was he everything you could want out of a ballplayer, he was everything you could want in a person,\u201d said Hampton, who was an assistant coach at St. John\u2019s during all three of Varvaro\u2019s seasons there. \u201cMy heart goes out to his family, friends, teammates and fellow officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Port Authority brass said Varvaro \u201crepresented the very best of this agency, and will be remembered for his courage and commitment to service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center \u2014 including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department \u2014 our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro,\u201d said the statement from Port Authority chairman Kevin O\u2019Toole and executive director Rick Cotton.<\/p>\n<p>Varvaro, who grew up on the New York City borough of Staten Island, was a 12th-round draft choice for Seattle in 2005. He made it to the big leagues in 2010, and then caught on with Atlanta, where he played from 2011 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves traded Varvaro to the Red Sox near the end of the 2014 season, and he was with Boston early the next season when the Chicago Cubs tried to claim him off the waiver wire. But an elbow injury scuttled the signing and required season-ending surgery. In 2016, he returned from the injury to pitch for Boston\u2019s Triple A affiliate, but retired in June and went to the Port Authority Police Academy.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Varvaro logged 183\u2154 innings in 166 games, compiling a 3.23 ERA, 150 strikeouts and one save.<\/p>\n<p>Varvaro, who had studied criminal justice at St. John\u2019s, spent five years on patrol before becoming an instructor at the academy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI figured that I had a pretty successful career in baseball, I had played a number of seasons, and I was fine moving on to the next step of my life,\u201d he told the St. John\u2019s student newspaper, The Torch, in December, 2016 as he was joining the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired to become a police officer in New York City died in a car crash Sunday morning on his way to the 9\/11 memorial ceremony in Lower Manhattan. Anthony Varvaro, who spent six years as a reliever with the Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox before &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1638846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1638846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}