NEW YORK -- A wake was held Tuesday for the Port Authority police officer killed on his way to Sunday's 9/11 ceremony in Lower Manhattan. 

Investigators say 37-year-old Anthony Varvaro, a Jersey City resident and former Major League Baseball player, was heading east on the New Jersey Turnpike Extension around 4:30 a.m. when another driver heading the wrong way struck him head on. 

Varvaro and the other driver both died. 

He is survived by a wife and four children.

Friends, family and fellow brothers and sisters in blue lined up on Victory Boulevard on Staten Island for the wake.

The wake continues Wednesday, followed by a funeral Thursday at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church.