Taking your son to a Major League Baseball game, hoping to catch a foul ball--a summertime ritual as American as 4th of July fireworks. But events took a tragic turn last night at a Texas Rangers game when a 39-year-old father flipped over the front-row railing and fell twenty feet to his death. The man had been trying to grab hold of the baseball that the Rangers' left fielder had tossed amiably up into the stands as a souvenir. Imagine the horror of a nine-year-old boy witnessing his father's fatal plummet (if that doesn't scar a person for life, nothing ever will). How awful, too, that the player who threw the baseball into the crowd was none other than Josh Hamilton--a superstar who has battled terrible substance problems, and who will now likely have the additional demon of guilt to wrestle with. All in all, a heartbreaking story, and proof that Gothic darkness can eclipse even our national pastime.
To watch a video report and read a news article chronicling the incident, click here.
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