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.