Yankees, sports world honor 9/11's 25th anniversary with tributes and moments of silence

Twenty-five years after nearly three thousand lives were taken in a single morning, the sports world paused again to hold what cannot be fully held — grief made communal, loss made visible. At Yankee Stadium and ballparks across the country, the rituals of remembrance unfolded as they have each September since 2001: silence, song, and the presence of those who carry the weight of that day forward. In New York especially, where the attacks reshaped everything, baseball has become something more than a game — a gathering place where a city continues the long, unfinished work of mourning together