The Texas Rangers will be flying flags at half staff at tonight's game and have begun a memorial fund for the family of the fan who fell to his death from the stands while trying to catch a ball for his young son, team president Nolan Ryan said today.
A somber Ryan said at a press conference that the tragedy "was one of the saddest things I've ever seen in a ballpark. It goes down to the basic roots of who we are and what we stand for."
Shannon Stone, 39, a firefighter in Brownwood, Texas,...
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