GaryMrMets
03-05-2007, 11:02 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/story/502418p-423716c.html
Forgotten hero
Former Met Stanley Jefferson struggles
to cope with horror of life as 9/11 cop
BY WAYNE COFFEY
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Four flights up in Co-Op City, at the end of a hallway in Building 26, the big man sits in a big brown recliner, boxed in by four walls and demons and an emptiness that doesn't end. If only it did. If only it were finite, measurable, like the outfields of Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium, or the other big-league parks he once called home.
Then Stanley Jefferson might be able to know exactly what he's dealing with. Then he might be able to go outside, go to work, maybe share the things he still believes he has to give, and begin to pick up the shards of a life that sometimes seems broken beyond recognition.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/509-stanJefferson_home.JPG
Stanley Jefferson in his home in Co-Op City.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/14-stanJefferson_cop.JPG
Jefferson at Police Academy in 1998.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/926-stanJefferson_Mets.JPG
Jefferson was a first-round draft pick of the Mets in 1983.
Forgotten hero
Former Met Stanley Jefferson struggles
to cope with horror of life as 9/11 cop
BY WAYNE COFFEY
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Four flights up in Co-Op City, at the end of a hallway in Building 26, the big man sits in a big brown recliner, boxed in by four walls and demons and an emptiness that doesn't end. If only it did. If only it were finite, measurable, like the outfields of Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium, or the other big-league parks he once called home.
Then Stanley Jefferson might be able to know exactly what he's dealing with. Then he might be able to go outside, go to work, maybe share the things he still believes he has to give, and begin to pick up the shards of a life that sometimes seems broken beyond recognition.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/509-stanJefferson_home.JPG
Stanley Jefferson in his home in Co-Op City.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/14-stanJefferson_cop.JPG
Jefferson at Police Academy in 1998.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ips_rich_content/926-stanJefferson_Mets.JPG
Jefferson was a first-round draft pick of the Mets in 1983.