A long-time reader who is covering the 1961 baseball season for Power Line
filed this report:
> On May 12, 1961, during a game at Yankee Stadium, Rocky Colavito charged
into the stands to intervene in a fight between his father and a fan who had
been harassing Rocky's wife. Colavito was followed by a posse of his Detroit
Tiger teammates who were hoping both to restrain and protect him. Rocky bowled
over a few season ticket holders and shook off one of his teammates to reach
the scene of the altercation. When got there, the police were already on the
scene. They escorted the "drunken bum" (Colavito's words) out of the Stadium.
>
> Umpire Ed Hurley sent Colavito to the showers for violating the rule against
invading the stands. However, he decided not to eject the Tigers who violated
the same rule for the purpose of restraining Rocky (Norm Cash had already been
tossed for arguing about a called strike). And League President Joe Cronin
later decided not to fine Colavito. "It wasn't the right thing for the boy to
go up into the stands," the Hall of Fame shortstop reasoned, "but I ...
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