Fans Go Over the Top For Adam Eaton's Ball

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 Fans Go Over the Top For Adam Eaton's Ball
With unfortunate f atalities at Shea Stadium and AT&T Park this year as well as that bizarre golf cart incident at Citizens Bank Park last season, Major League ball parks aren't the safest places in the world. Another potentially horrible incident was avoided yesterday at CBP when a fan tried a little too hard for a ball tossed by Adam Eaton during BP. The monotonous batting-practice ... [link]

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The Chance to Own a Piece of Adam Eaton Nearly Kills a Phillie Fan
Published 5/15/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... story, "Ambitious onlooker tumbles from stands," creates a definition for ambitious that I was unfamiliar with. Someone should really write up a big book of guidelines for people attending games and right up front should be "Thou shalt not risk life and limb to steal a ball from another fan when it's thrown over the fence by a mediocre starter." You want to take a chance at a broken neck for a Brandon Webb collectible, I won't judge, but let's have some standards. (H/T The 700 Level)   Permalink | Email this ...

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