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  • Teen pleads guilty in coach's beating

    10/22/2002 8:30:31 AM PDT · by Pern · 16 replies · 208+ views
    AP via CNN.com ^ | October 22, 2002 | AP
    <p>CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A 15-year-old boy accused of attacking a Kansas City Royals coach during a baseball game pleaded guilty and was released to his family until sentencing.</p> <p>The boy and his father, 34-year-old William R. Ligue Jr., were charged in the September beating of coach Tom Gamboa during a game between the Royals and Chicago White Sox. Gamboa lost some of his hearing.</p>
  • "He Flipped Us And Got What He Deserved": A Royal Mugging In Chicago

    09/21/2002 12:06:43 AM PDT · by BluesDuke · 118 replies · 779+ views
    The Polo Grounds: A Calm Review of Baseball ^ | 20 September 2002 | Jeff Kallman
    "He Flipped Us And Got What He Deserved"A Royal Mugging in Chicago by Jeff Kallman Flipping the bird to the Ebbets Field boo birds got Casey Stengel a standing ovation in 1919. Flipping the bird to a pair of lithe, wired Comiskey Park birds (so they say was done), for whom booing might have been their least vile emissions, got Tom Gamboa a mugging Thursday night.It probably helped Stengel that his was a very literal flip; it surely hurt Gamboa that his two assailants were probably too thick to appreciate it, if he had thought about trying it Casey's way.Stengel with the Pittsburgh...