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Former M.L.B. Pitcher Turned Police Officer Killed in Car Crash
Last edited Tue Sep 13, 2022, 01:18 PM - Edit history (1)
This really hits home. I know his brother and sister-in-law very well, as they've been over my house many times. I've met Anthony on a few occasions as well. Super-nice guy. Killed by a wrong way driver. I'm so sad, his family is heartbroken. 
A former Major League Baseball pitcher who became a Port Authority police officer after retiring from the sport was killed in a car crash on Sunday while driving to a Sept. 11 commemoration in New York, according to the authorities and his former team.
The former pitcher, Anthony Varvaro, 37, was on the New Jersey Turnpike in Hudson County at about 4:30 a.m., en route to Lower Manhattan for the commemoration, when a Toyota RAV4 going the wrong way struck his Nissan Maxima, causing it to hit a concrete barrier, said Charles Marchan, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police, in a statement. The driver of the Toyota, Henry A. Plazas, 30, and Mr. Varvaro were killed, Mr. Marchan said.
“On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center — including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department — our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro,” the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.
The family of Mr. Varvaro said in a statement that “words cannot express our heartbreak and how much we will miss Anthony.”
The former pitcher, Anthony Varvaro, 37, was on the New Jersey Turnpike in Hudson County at about 4:30 a.m., en route to Lower Manhattan for the commemoration, when a Toyota RAV4 going the wrong way struck his Nissan Maxima, causing it to hit a concrete barrier, said Charles Marchan, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police, in a statement. The driver of the Toyota, Henry A. Plazas, 30, and Mr. Varvaro were killed, Mr. Marchan said.
“On this solemn occasion as the Port Authority mourns the loss of 84 employees in the attacks on the World Trade Center — including 37 members of the Port Authority Police Department — our grief only deepens today with the passing of Officer Varvaro,” the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement.
The family of Mr. Varvaro said in a statement that “words cannot express our heartbreak and how much we will miss Anthony.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/us/anthony-varvaro-crash-dead.html
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