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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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Didn't anyone tell these people that it's just a baseball?
Just proves that natural selection is a scientific fact.
At this point you have to give in to the Darwin award.
This was staged/dramatized.Shame on CNN for giving this attention.
Dieving for the ball!
Great catch to the family. Now let's stop falling over the railing, people, or they won't allow ball-catching anymore.
What an idiot. Enough said.
staged
Staged??? What? You don't think this country (or this world, for that matter) has multiple people who would dive over a railing, risking death, to catch a $4 baseball? If everyone learned lessons from other's mistakes, we wouldn't have the Darwin Awards! What kind of world would this be without the Darwin Awards? Now, please excuse me while I go fix a live electrical outlet with a standard screwdriver while keeping cool with my bare feet on a freshly mopped floor.
So very staged. Just look at the pictures and the video. It's as clear as day. Bonehead should have the book thrown at him. He should get no notoriety because of this.
Beer, Rednecks, Baseball, and low IQ,....natural selection does work.
I am there with you. Some people just don't get the idea of cause and effect. I am sorry for the little boy who lost his dad but the dad was an idiot. And this one, they should have let him fall. Let the gene pool get cleaned!
In one photo you can see they were drinking and he is actually standing on top of the table even with the railing and he was barefoot. He is a idiot and most likely drunk but at the same time no security stopped him from standing on top of the table barefoot. I would think that would be enough to at least cut off the booze or kick him out
That's just stupidity. A ball or anything else from a so called "celeb" is not worth it. No human (celeb) is worth anything in my mind. Money I mean.
Fans saved him, and well, that and he is holding on to the rail with one hand.
Yeah, and those fans were his brother and friends, who (from one picture) probably had a feeling that he was crazy enough to make the dive. An unprepared stranger would have never made the catch. Shoot. An unprepared stranger probably would have started the video running from his phone to catch the live shot of him plummeting to his death.
Risk your life for a baseball and sympathy will be hard to come by from me. Stupid is as stupid does.
The worst thing here is he was nowhere near the ball.
What is the obsession with catching a ball? It's just a damn game. Besides, why is it that the guy is always some chubby suburban white man?
Cause no onle else can afford it.
The fascination is these people have small male organs and get a thrill by telling the story of catching a ball and being on the jumbo tron. Just imagine at the bar. Man I was at the game and no name charlie hit a foul ball in the upper deck and I got it. I knocked 3 kids and 2 other out of the way to do it too. I yelled at the top of my lungs while they show me on the scoreboard. Best day of my life man.
What losers
Bit of a racist there William? Or are you self loathing?