Baseball can’t rebuild Puerto Rico, but its return is a comfort after Hurricane Maria

Bob Saget is joking about milking an Omaha cow. Outside, New York City is frigid and windy but the air inside midtown’s Hunt & Fish Club in mid-November is far warmer, thick with money and the smell of catered sirloin. And in some sort of record for the most unexpected non sequitur from a celebrity guest, Saget is riffing about cows on stage. He’s not doing stand-up. Saget is standing on a makeshift platform inside the high-end steakhouse alongside millionaire restaurateur and Hunt & Fish Club co-founder Eytan Sugarman, former Yankees star Jorge Posada and his wife Laura, and other wealthy friends who helped make this event — a fundraiser co-hosted by the Posadas in support of The Foundation for Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Relief Fund — happen on short notice. Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard steadily cycles through the crowd. A top investor grabs another glass of wine before chatting with Yankees legend Bernie Williams, who applauded the Posadas for being a leader among a group of current and former players who all want to help Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Carlos Beltran, the newly minted World Series champion and advocate for Puerto Rico’s recovery,… Read full this story

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