Forde has field dedicated in her name
(MLB.com New York Mets)

Strip away the bright white chalk lines, the regal black fencing, the cameras and reporters. Scrub out the freshly sodded lawn, the scoreboard, the onlookers and well-wishers. What was left Friday morning on this little plot of land near the Hudson River was a boy, a girl, a baseball and a game of catch. It was not so long ago that Shannon Forde was the girl at the park on Mehrhof Road, playing softball with her father, sister and friends.