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- At first, 19-year-old Ruth Ann Steinhagen’s obsession with Philadelphia Phillies player Eddie Waitkus was your typical intense teenage infatuation—she had a little shrine to Waitkus in her bedroom and got the vapors the one time she managed to get close to him at a game. But there were signs that Steinhagen’s preoccupation was crossing into dangerous territory: She demanded that her mother set a place at the table for her favorite player every night, and taught herself how to speak Lithuanian, because his parents had emigrated from there.
flagamuffin ButterflyEffect -My guess is that you two have seen this film. Interesting account of the actual event.
ButterflyEffect · 2866 days ago · link ·
Amazing. I didn't know this story, thanks for the shoutout! Honestly, this was my favorite bit of it: Imagine somebody saying that today.“Furthermore, she ruined a $60 suit by shooting me through the coat.”