Woman reunited with dad's ashes, readers give fan sacred Shea dirt

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THE SKILL SETS FOLLIES: OFF SEASON EDITION I
Published 10/6/2008 by kranepool at Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog
... First, there is a story of the woman who had sprinkled her late father’s ashes on the pitching mound at Shea Stadium a few years back. Now that the ball park is being dismantled, Lisa Hanson and her son Ben went to Shea with the wish of scooping up some dirt from the mound as a remembrance of her dad. But of course the management of the Mets, which we know is totally clueless when it comes to customer relations, told Ms. Hanson that she could not go on the field because of the work being in done on the take down of Shea. Okay, she did show up unannounced and maybe a bad ...

Woman reunited with dad’s ashes, readers give fan sacred Shea dirt
Published 10/6/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Woman reunited with dad’s ashes, readers give fan sacred Shea dirt Shades of Hitchcock’s “The Jar”...Ashburn appears at Shea. The Mets vowed not to budge - but three big-hearted Daily News readers were eager to help a woman barred from retrieving her father’s ashes at Shea Stadium. The story of Lisa Hasson’s failed attempt to scoop dirt, and hopefully some of her father’s remains, from the ballpark’s pitching mound on Saturday touched one worker. So the worker, who said he was dismantling the doomed stadium’s bleachers, contacted The News and offered to give Hasson a plastic ...

Now Taking The Mound: Some Dead Guy’s Ashes
Published 10/6/2008 by The Duke at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... on a baseball mound: a grand gesture or simply ghoulish? I asked myself that question after reading about Lisa Hasson , who had secretly scattered her father’s ashes on the mound at Shea Stadium 12 years ago, and had been told by team officials that she couldn’t get into the field to scoop some of the mound up to re-scatter it at the new ball park. After an initial story about Hasson’s plight ran in the DAILY NEWS, Mets fans who had been able to scoop up dirt from the mound volunteered to send some to her . Mets fan's ashes It sounds like a sweet story that ...