In this grand sporting nation of ours, home of noble Olympians, Little Leaguers with mint chocolate-chip moustaches, the late John Wooden and humble NBA millionaires like Grant Hill, solemn questions this Independence Day: Do we care too much about our games and our teams? And if not, then exactly what makes a fan of one team pummel a fan of another team into a coma?
It’s been more than three months since Bryan Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan, was beaten unconscious by two Dodgers fans in a stadium parking lot after a game. He remains hospitalized with brain injuries and one man, a known gang member, is in custody. While taking into account a perpetrator’s background — and the fact there are unruly fans and then there are just flat-out violent criminals who happen to have a ticket stub — it’s hard not to, at least in part, connect the dots back to an endangered species at the ballpark.
CARRY ON
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