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...bond between father and son seems rivaled only by that between a first-base coach and his team. In a move rarely expected outside Yankee Stadium, two men in the stands at Chicago's Comiskey Park charged the field during the top of the ninth inning and attacked Tom Gamboa, first-base coach of the visiting Kansas City Royals, and began beating him. The Royals immediately cleared the bench and piled on the two men, identified as WILLIAM LIGUE JR., 34, and his 15-year-old son. Security guards entered the fray and dragged the shirtless duo off the field...
...last year's World Series, when he announced plans to eliminate several teams even as the newly-crowned Diamondbacks were still unlacing their grass-stained shoes. Then, midway through the 2002 season, Selig made the disastrous decision to call the All-Star Game, which was tied in the 11th inning, because both teams had run out of pitchers. He was booed in Milwaukee, where he was once a hero (for recruiting the Brewers away from Seattle). Fans were outraged, call-in radio shows were in an uproar and a few days later Selig promised never to make that mistake again...
...once sent a midget to bat. The St. Paul Saints, owned by Veeck's son Mike, gave out inflatable bats, sponsored by the maker of Viagra, to every man over 21. In Nashville, Tenn., 15 nuns opened a game with the national anthem and came back during the 7th-inning stretch to perform the Macarena...
...bottom of the ninth inning, after the apparently impending loss had subdued Yankees’ fans jeers of “1918,” Jason Giambi led off as the Red Sox infielders, expecting the former AL MVP to pull the ball, shifted to the right side of the diamond...
...memorable moments—Roger Clemens’ ejection in the 1990 American League Championship Series, the ground ball trickling through Bill Buckner’s legs during the 1986 World Series, the unlikely Bucky Dent lofting a lazy fly ball over the Green Monster in 1978, the late-inning collapse in Game Seven of the 1975 World Series—is well-known as the Curse of the Bambino...