You may have read reports about Shannon Stone, the 39 year old father who fell and suffered fatal injuries when attempting to catch a baseball which he had requested be thrown to him as a souvenir for his six year old son.
John Armstrong writes about Josh Hamilton, the player who responded to Stone’s request and threw the ball to him.
I was unaware of the precise circumstances of this tragic incident, and Armstrong’s background information on Hamilton’s life is touching and poignant.

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