{"id":12615,"date":"2011-07-08T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12615"},"modified":"2011-07-08T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:58:28","slug":"baseball-fan-dies-catching-ball-the-shocking-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12615","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Fan DIES CATCHING BALL \u2013 THE SHOCKING STORY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=12615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12616\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"baseball fall header\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/baseball-fall-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fan at a Texas Rangers home game yesterday fell to his death in an attempt to catch a ball. The victim was there with his young son, and fell over the rail, head first, falling to his death. Thankfully, his son was not injured, but he, along with the security close to the scene and fans witnessed the death first hand. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred during the second inning of the Rangers versus Oakland A\u2019s game. Conor Jackson of the A\u2019s hit a foul ball near the left field. The outfielder Josh Hamilton retrieved the ball and tossed it into the stands.<\/p>\n<p>Team President Nolan Ryan noted that \u201cJosh is very distraught over this. We\u2019re very heavy-hearted about this and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a tragic accident. RSR sends our condolences to the family of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geno McGahee A fan at a Texas Rangers home game yesterday fell to his death in an attempt to catch a ball. The victim was there with his young son, and fell over the rail, head first, falling to his death. Thankfully, his son was not injured, but he, along with the security close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4020,4021,3800,4022],"class_list":["post-12615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-baseball-fan","tag-catching-ball","tag-dies","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}