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Baseball fan almost replays fatal fall
On the day a memorial service was held in Texas for a baseball fan who suffered fatal injuries while reaching for a ball, a man at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby nearly took a similar fall.
During the contest at Chase Field in Phoenix, Keith Carmickle of Kingman, Arizona, stepped on a small table and reached over a railing for a ball hit by Milwaukee Brewers star Prince Fielder, AZCentral.com reported.
Carmickle lost his balance and tumbled over the railing head first. His brother, Kraig Carmickle, a friend, Aaron Nelson, and a couple of other men caught him by his limbs, saving him from an estimated 20-foot fall to the stadium's pool deck, according to the site.
"He tried to catch it. I grabbed his legs and his brother grabbed his arms," Nelson told AZCentral. "So when he went over the ledge, we pulled him back. He wasn't going down. I was holding on."
Watch ESPN video of the near-fall from CNN affiliate KPHO-TV
On a different batted ball, another fan leapt and landed in the stadium's pool with a big splash - and with the ball. He jumped around exultantly in the water, apparently unhurt.
Firefighter Shannon Stone fell to his death in front of his young son Thursday at a Texas Rangers game at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. Stone fell while reaching over a rail for a ball tossed into the stands by Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton. Stone was buried Monday in his hometown of Brownwood, Texas.
Hamilton will play in Tuesday night's All-Star Game in Phoenix but did not participate in the Home Run Derby.
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What sport is worth dying for?
They aren't killing themselved on purpose, it's called an accident.
Apparently the fans are not paying attention. After the one man fell to his death, you would THINK that others would be more careful. Don't risk your life for a BALL! For crying out loud. It's a BALL. Look before you leap. Stupid people tricks, I guess.
@Mari....
Stupidity is no accident.
Maybe it's time for the ball parks to put up a moron fence around these higher seats.
Especially since these idiots are usually drunk too.
It's not an accident Mari, it's called stupidity.
These people realize that they can go to a store and buy them right?? What's the difference between buying a baseball and one that was hit or thrown out of a baseball park by some guy jacked up on steroids??
That's called an accident waiting to happen.
@Mari
It’s called stupidity.
The fans should be behind a cage like the Blues Brothers in a Country & Western Bar.
It's for their own damn good, especially when we call gross negligence and safety breaches
an "Accident".
The guys that installed those seats had to wear safety belts, and tether to a safety line.
At least make the fans wear seat belts.
what an idiot
Fence needed....
Seriously, folks, is a baseball worth your life? It's one thing to catch the ball when it is hit into the stands, but it's a totally different "ball game" when the ball is out of reach. LET IT GO!
Let it Go junior....Let it go.....
This isn't a matter of fencing. Where Stone fell should have some netting but this jerk in this photo not only had several balls already but jumped on top of a table and went over.
Should we all be caged up because drunk guys like this one are jumping on tables, standing on seats to go up and over and not practicing common sense?
I also smell partially a publicity style stunt. This guy happens to get up onto a table and dive for a ball that fell several feet below where he could have gotten it and his friends happen to grab him just in the nick of time as a group, but if he fell, could have possibly been in that pool?
Agreed. Notice how in the picture there is no look of panic on anyones face....how dumb and who took the pic? In a split second fall someone was able to capture a picture instead of trying to help? Doubtful.
Well when you put it like that....let's just let them die instead of caging everyone up.
One less brainless fool in the world would be a good thing.
Hey JMMAM, you ever heard of a telephoto lens? You have no idea where the photographer is.
Dsavio – that angle is from underneath. Unless he's shooting from Hades – he doesn't need a telephoto lens for a guy 10 feet above his head.
Watch the video. He wasn't even close! Climbing on a table? Really?
Um, yeah, he was on a table. And, yes, I saw the video.
Natural selection...if he prefers a baseball over life, so be it...more resources for the rest of us....
I always wondered what kind of people are watching baseball, I mean it has something like 12-13 minutes of activity on average per game. Now I know.
as a apposed to watching a game where the ball moves so fast you can't keep up with it. Or you have to watch the replay to see what happened. OK
Staged. There just happened to be multiple cameras in the perfect place to snap dramatic pictures of it? Seriously?
Stop! Have ever look at the monitors in the stadium...everyone's on stage in that place
Not everyone has several photographers standing on the side and directly underneath them. They grabbed his feet and arms perfectly. It's fully possible he was just a drunk idiot, but the whole thing comes across as staged.
I don't think it was staged in the sense it was done by the team, stadium or MLB. The cams were following the balls. I think this guy and his friends knew it and set it up so they could get media attention after a tragedy from the same thing.
No one said it was staged by MLB or the stadium. Why would you assume that's what he meant when he said it was staged? He's saying it was staged by the fans. Staged, however, might not be the best word for it. I think they saw an opportunity to have fun and be stupid and Dramatized the situation.
'Not everyone has several photographers standing on the side and directly underneath them'
but a person with a camera usually follows the ball after its been hit so of course they were looking in the right direction at the time of the incident.
he should have fell to his death, one less weak link in the gene pool. these people are fkin idiots, they deserve to die.
Wow, Pam, you sound like a good time. G-d help us.
buzz-kill.
bad decision to fill put quarter ounce gold nuggets in the center every baseball.... or wait, did they do that?
Probally the beer throwing the judgement off. Stadium need to elevate a safety fence...
They don't need to do anything. Those fans dramatized the situation. And even if they didn't, you can't just bend over to protect idiots.
Keep your hands and feet on the proper side of the railing at all times. Failure to comply with common sense could be costly.
unlike the guy in texas, this guys appears to be a drunken fool. there are pictures of this guy standing on tables next to the the railing tryin to be in the perfect spot to get a ball b4 the tumle. where are the attendants or security to tell this guy to get the hell off the table??? this guy is a complete baffoon!
MORONS !! It's a $8.99 baseball.