The Kansas City Royals’ Coach Tom Gamboa was attacked by a father/son duo during last night’s game with the Chicago White Sox. This is just a truly sad thing! To think that a person would attack a coach at a professional baseball game! I’m not a huge fan of MLB or the players, but really, I’m not that discontent about baseball. I just hope that these people go to jail for a long, long time!
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September 22nd, 2002 at 7:25 pm
Assailants say Gamboa ‘got what he deserved’
from http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=220919104
CHICAGO (AP) — A father and son contend they were provoked before bursting onto the field at a baseball game and attacking the first base coach of the Kansas City Royals.
Coach Tom Gamboa, however, maintains he had no exchanges with the two before they slammed him to the ground and started punching and kicking him during Thursday night’s game against the Chicago White Sox.
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Sitting in the first row along the right-field line, the group shouted insults at Gamboa all night. The source said Ligue and his family contended there was some back and forth until Gamboa made an obscene gesture.
Around the seventh inning, Ligue called a female relative on a cell phone to ask if she was watching the game, and when she could not find the channel, he said, “Well then, just watch the news,” the source said.
The Royals rushed to Gamboa’s aid after he was knocked to the ground, and the 54-year-old coach escaped with a few cuts and bruises. A folded-up pocket knife was found on the ground afterward.
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“The only thing that’s really got me upset even more than the incident itself is the charge that there was something going on between us,” Gamboa said. “I have never in my professional career ever responded” to fans.
“At no time, no matter how bad it got, have I ever made a hand gesture or verbally done anything to the fans.”
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Security at ballparks tightened after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Fans are not allowed to bring in large bags, and smaller ones are searched. But like the screenings at airports, they’ve relaxed with time.
And with no metal detectors at ballparks, there’s nothing to prevent someone from bringing in a weapon. “It doesn’t matter how much you beef up security,” Royals starter Paul Byrd said. “Anybody can get by at any minute.”