An Amazing Story

I just read a story on Foxsports.com about home runs that Twins outfielder Michael Cuddyer hit in a minor league playoff series in 2001.
He won a couple of games for the New Britain Rock Cats in the first round of the Eastern League playoffs that helped the team win the series and advance to the finals.
Yeah, so what? Is that what you are thinking?
Well, those home runs saved the life of Tigers pitcher Brad Thomas, a teammate on that Rock Cats club.
Thomas, booked a flight home, to Austrailia, via Los Angeles for September 11th. He wanted to get a cheaper fare to LA and he would have flown out on that date had Cuddyer not hit those home runs and extended New Britain's season. Of course the plane he was supposed to be on was one of the planes that flew into the World Trade Center.
Whenever the Twins and Tigers play, Thomas and Cuddyer shake hands and hug. Thomas follows Cuddyer's career closely as you might expect.
The Eastern League cancelled their Championship Series that season. New Britain and the Reading Phillies were declared co-champions. Michael Cuddyer should have been named MVP.