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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:37
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Other than noting that King George isn't a lot of help with his observation, I think the last sentence of the article pretty much sums it's up.
By MIKE FITZPATRICK, AP Sports Writer
Wed Aug 10, 6:50 AM ET
NEW YORK - A fan plunged from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium onto the screen behind home plate during Tuesday night's game between New York and the
Chicago White Soxand was taken to a hospital.
The game was delayed for four minutes in the eighth inning after 18-year-old Scott Harper of Armonk, N.Y., plummeted about 40 feet onto the large net. After the final out, he was carried from the ballpark on a stretcher, his head immobilized in a neck brace, and taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was in stable condition at early Wednesday, hospital spokeswoman Jill Brooker said.
Harper told three friends he was sitting with that he was going to test whether the net would hold his weight — and then he jumped, police said.
"The next thing you know, you don't see him anymore. You saw him on the net," said 18-year-old Mike Spadafino, one of Harper's friends.
Obviously scared and shaken after he landed, Harper sat with his head in his hands for a few moments before climbing on the net back up to the middle level of seats as players watched and the crowd roared.
"That was the only exciting thing that happened today," Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said after Chicago's 2-1 victory.
Harper then was hoisted over the railing and led away by security.
"People think we threw him off, but we're all best friends, so I don't think that would ever happen," said 20-year-old Giusseppe Tripi, another one of Harper's friends.
Det. Kevin Czartoryski said Harper was arrested and police expect to charge him with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
"They claimed we were saying, `Sit or jump, sit or jump,'" Spadafino said. "It was everyone in there, in the basic area."
It was the second time in five years a fan dropped from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium. In May 2000, 24-year-old Stephen Laurenzi of Yonkers, N.Y., was unconscious for a short time while sprawled on the net as a game between Boston and New York went on. He also was arrested and taken to a hospital for observation.
"I was hoping I wouldn't see that again," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "You could break your neck."
In 1997 and 1998, there was only a high backstop behind the plate and no netting extending to the stands.
"I've never seen anything like that before," White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. "I think that's New York, you know, anything can happen."
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Westland, Michigan
Aug 2000
time: 00:37
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You were at a game on June 22nd? I was at the June 21st one -- with the 13 run inning. Odd coincidence. I was sitting in what looks to be the same area you're in, except on first base side. I have a really good picture of Giambi making contact on a ground rule double from that game.
As for this fan: what a shmoe. "Gee, I wonder if the net would hold me?" And what if it didn't? Then you seriously hurt three or four people below you. I happened to be watching the game live when it happened, and it was hysterical. I just wish they had tape of him falling.
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Danmark
Mar 1999
time: 06:37
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Yes, that is a strange coincidence. Even more so since it was a chance thing that I went to see that game. I'd heard about the 'unusual' game the night before, the one you were at. And then in the morning, I was waiting in line for 3 hours to get a ticket to Spamalot at the Schubert Theatre, and I got to talking with this woman who was on the staff for the Tampa Bay team, and she told me there was a game the same afternoon, and I decided to go watch.
Then at the stadium ticket line, a guy came up and asked if I would buy an extra $40 ticket he had, for $20. (or was it $20 and 10, can't really remember). Deal! So I got to sit with him and his friends, and he filled me in on what was going on. As it's really a complicated thing to follow when you're not used to it.
So it wasn't all bad. Just generally boring.  Well it was, compared to the game the night before!
Here's another picture where you can just make out a portion of the net that the guy jumped into, in the bottom right corner.
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