Before March 2, 2007, Allen Slabaugh was admittedly focused on baseball. But like others on the Bluffton team bus that crashed that morning in Atlanta, killing seven-including five of his teammates-he was changed by the experience.
"The accident redirected me a lot," says Slabaugh, 24, who calls it "a miracle" that he escaped with only cuts on his back and a few stitches on one knee. No longer feeling invincible, he realized "I was blessed to be able to play baseball, and for each day on Earth I'm given," he explains.