Building a Better Omaha: CWS ticketholder starts foundation honoring late mother [Video]

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Players don’t have a monopoly on College World Series memories. Fans carry moments too.

“It’s like spring break for two weeks in Omaha, Nebraska, with baseball,” said Corey Jackson. “We got married here on opening night.”

Corey and his wife Melissa started their life together at the ballpark.

“I’ve missed eight games since 1993.”

Corey lost his father in 1983. They had just gotten season tickets to Rosenblatt.

“This became a pilgrimage for my mother and myself,” he said.

It didn’t last long. Three years later, cancer took his mother — a 16-year-old missing his parents.

“One of the toughest moments of my entire life was that next year when my mom wasn’t going to be there,” he said. “First year going back and telling people I lost my mother.”

For years, Seats 13 and 14 in Section P, Row 8, had an emptiness — Corey in one seat, no one but …