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July 10, 2005
Tracking down the Cubs most infamous fan.: Whatever happened to Bartman? What became of the man whose bare hands got in the way of the most notorious foul ball in baseball history? Some said he'd moved to London or Florida. Others murmured that he'd undergone plastic surgery, hair replacement, name changes. Was any of it true? (via waxy links)
posted by Ufez Jones to baseball at 01:13 PM - 8 comments
Yeah, the kind of "aw, gee, shucks" is a bit of a boring ending. Frankly, I'm just hoping the author does get the interview, as that would trump a (fairly well-written) piece on just tracking Bartman down.
posted by Ufez Jones at 02:40 PM on July 10, 2005
What a candy-ass. He should've at least challenged Bartman to an armwrestle or something.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 06:40 PM on July 10, 2005
I went into this thinking I would hate it, and instead ending up loving it. If the writer had gotten the interview, we would have never gotten this piece, which might even be more interesting.
posted by wfrazerjr at 07:32 PM on July 10, 2005
Don't you Americans have laws against stalking? just asking....
posted by owlhouse at 08:12 PM on July 10, 2005
Do people really care about Bartman? It was great news when it happened, now its just history....
posted by daddisamm at 10:54 PM on July 10, 2005
He has been invited to throw out the first pitch on several occasions. He has turned all down. I don't even think he has been back to Wrigley at all.
posted by volfire at 08:39 AM on July 11, 2005
I lived in Chicago for 30 years and submit this: Cubs fans are pathetic losers who feeble-mindedly cheer when a cloud passes over Wrigley, 70% of whom are so drunk that they couldn't tell you their own name, let alone the score of the game, by the 7th inning retch, er, stretch. The whole Affair' Bartman is the perfect example of the beetle-browed, mob-mentality persecution so easily derived from the obnoxious fratboy worldview of the average Wrigleyville yuppy/Cub fan. Here's an insight that these semi-retarded "baseball fans" will never come to: Cubs management is not interested in fielding a World Series team -- they have Wrigley field and they have beer, they make so much money off of those two items that they will never bother to pay for a team good enough to win it all. Losers. ps) Greg Maddux. pps) I'm a White Sox fan :) (could you tell?)
posted by sic at 10:50 AM on July 15, 2005
This story's ending is a bit of a letdown. Bartman appears to hope that if he's as boring as possible, the notoriety will fade more quickly. I still think he should have thrown out a ball for the Marlins during that year's Series.