(CNN) -- Almost a year after a similar incident, tragedy struck again at a Texas Rangers game Thursday night when a fan fell over a railing while trying to catch a ball. The fan, who was not identified, flipped over the railing of the outfield seats. He fell about 20 feet -- crashing head-first into an area near a scoreboard as his horrified son watched. The man was rushed to a hospital where he died, the Arlington Fire Department said. Major League Baseball officials said the incident occurred in the second inning of the game at Rangers Ballpark after star outfielder Josh Hamilton threw a ball in the stands for fans. Another fan who was sitting near the victim saw him leaning over the rail. The second man tried to grab on to victim's shirt, but could not hold on. The fall, captured on video footage, shows the victim's son -- decked in a Rangers hat and t-shirt -- reaching towards his father as the man tumbled over the railing. "We are deeply saddened to learn that the man who fell has passed away as a result of this tragic accident," said legendary former pitcher and Texas Rangers President Nolan Ryan. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family." One fan who saw the fall described the incident to CNN affiliate WFAA. "Just as the ball hit his hands, it kind of threw him off balance and he went head-first," he said. "It looked awful because you knew there was no way he was going to land on his feet " The incident occurred almost a year after another fall at a Texas Rangers game. On July 9, 2010, a fan fell from the second deck of the ballpark while trying to catch a foul ball. The man, Tyler Morris, survived the 30-foot fall but fractured his skull and injured his foot and ankle. "Somebody had to have been watching over me from above," Morris later told reporters.
I feel so much for his kid...
Plus can you imagine how Josh Hamilton feels??
And the guy was a veteran firefighter...
This is one of the saddest stories that I've ever heard...
RIP bud...
Babak_S
wow...... Poor son, The life that he must live from today is unimagineable, Hopefully he has a mom, because this kid's life has dramastically taken a turn towards fears and will live a life engulfed in so many emotions....a son without a father, a wife without a husband....Way too many repercussions. :( :(
My best wishes for the son and mom.
GGM
Extremely sad, but the reality is this stuff and much much worse happens on a daily basis and we never hear about it. It's just a matter of what CNN or another news agency decides to sensationalize and make the news of the day. But RIP to them all and that does suck for the kid, hopefully he's got a good family that can semi fill the new void.
True story, in Brazil there were so many people being THROWN off the sides of the upper bowls in soccer stadiums that many of them put up tall fences to prevent it. Then there's the boozed out people we've all seen (or possibly been at one point) where they're into the game leaning over without thinking of the possible repercussions. My buddy had to grab a guy who nearly fell over the side drunk at a Jays game a few weeks ago.
Ammar.Hasan
I'm sorry I know this a sad story, but what about all the war ridden countries in the world? What about the little boys and girls there? Who lose their parents? There are much sadder stories :(. Though I won't lie this was a really unfortunate incident.
VDub
I guess, in my eyes anyway, it's the situation that strikes a chord with me...
Whether it's a guy getting killed in a war or a cop dying in the line of duty, I'll probably never be in that situation...
But how many ball games will I catch with my son?
And know that I'm not belittling all of those other tragedies but to watch your dad fall to his death while trying to catch a baseball for you....
Kills me...
E2EK1EL
RIP :(
FunkyCrew
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Originally posted by Ammar.Hasan
I'm sorry I know this a sad story, but what about all the war ridden countries in the world? What about the little boys and girls there? Who lose their parents? There are much sadder stories :(. Though I won't lie this was a really unfortunate incident.
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Originally posted by GGM
Extremely sad, but the reality is this stuff and much much worse happens on a daily basis and we never hear about it. It's just a matter of what CNN or another news agency decides to sensationalize and make the news of the day.
but right now we're talking about one little boy who lost his father
sometimes these "but worst things happen in the world on daily basis" arguments do my head in - so what?! we cannot concentrate on tragic individual cases?
GGM
^^^ You're absolutely right and not trying to take away from the story itself, just more annoyed at the way CNN and other news corps play eenie meanie miney moe with these random tragic happenings and turn them into filler.
jester
It is sad. He dies all because of a baseball. Yet he risked his life probably countless times in fires.
My deepest sympathies to his kid and his family.
Zyklon_Jay
I guess you could say that he was head over heels when it came to baseball.
DARIEN, N.Y. — A U.S. Army veteran who lost both legs in Iraq and had been trying to rebuild his life was killed after he was thrown from a roller coaster at an upstate New York amusement park.
Teams of inspectors on Saturday were examining the Ride of Steel coaster at the Darien Lake Theme Park Resort, about 30 miles east of Buffalo.
Sgt. James Thomas Hackemer, 29, was ejected from the 208-foot-tall ride early Friday evening after climbing aboard during a family outing. Authorities and a park spokeswoman declined to say at what point in the ride the accident occurred.
The wounded veteran was missing all of his left leg and most of his right one, as well as part of a hip, because of a roadside bomb. He had only recently returned for good to his parents' home in Gowanda following years in and out of rehabilitation at hospitals around the northeast U.S.
It wasn't immediately clear whether attendants at the theme park had given any thought to barring Hackemer from the ride because of his missing limbs.
Hackemer was accompanied by a dozen family members, including one of his sisters, Jody Hackemer.
"He was determined to ride every roller coaster," she said. "That minute he was on that ride, he probably felt the happiest and most normal he's felt in three and a half years."
Hackemer rode the coaster with a college-age nephew, Ashton Luffred. Family members who gathered at the Hackemers' home Saturday said the young man was too shaken to speak with a reporter.
But Catie Marks, another of Hackemer's sisters, said Luffred told her that park attendants did not challenge the disabled veteran's desire to ride the coaster.
