NEW YORK – A group of A’s players who visited the Freedom Tower on Wednesday all came away feeling the emotional impact of the experience.
Sean Doolittle, Ryan Dull, Fernando Rodriguez and Stephen Vogt got a guided tour of the Freedom Tower -- the rebuilt World Trade Center -- which brought back vivid memories for the players of when the original Twin Towers were destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Doolittle’s uncle, John Urban, works in the observatory of the Freedom Tower. Construction on the building began in April 2006 and the tower opened on November 2014.