Long story short. A senior softball player hits the first home run of her career... ever. She doesn't step on first base and turns back to touch first. She tears her ACL. She has to touch all bases before the home run will count. If any of her teammates or coaches touch her, she will be called out.
Two players from the opposing team pick her up and carry her around the bases, allowing her to touch all the bases and get her home run.
The team that carried her around the bases ended up losing the game.
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Aw! How horrible, and how touching. Great story. I think the last feel good story I heard was about the autistic kid was singing the national anthem at a baseball game and got the giggles and couldn't stop laughing, so the entire crowd joined in and sang the anthem with him. It was 10 kinds of awesome.
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quote:Originally posted by anti_maven: Ok, so I'm a candidate for carmudgeon of th year, but could they have made that report anymore schmaltzy?
It's a great story. One of the finest, but eek, the soundtrack, the heavy delivery *shudders*.
Surely the tale is strong enough to stand on its own merit without the OTT heart-string tweaking adornments?
*retires to cave to thrash Bob Cratchett*
Yeah, it is a little bit overdramatic, but that's what they do on ESPN with the heart touching stories.
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KPC shared this story with me yesterday. It made me happy. That is what good sportsmanship is.
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espn makes me during every college game day... some college football player that went to junior college, worked third shift at the iron mill to help his grandparents (that raised him)and dedicates every game to them. He has there names tatooed on each arm sob sob. they get me everytime.
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Whenever I see this thread's title, I read the title in the voice of "Kelly"'s grandmother (from Shoes, Text Message Break Up, and so forth).
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I think the story is great, despite the fact that NCAA has pointed out that the ump's ruling was incorrect - in the case of bases which have been awarded, a substitute can run the awarded bases on behalf of the injured player.
In other words, it was a homerun regardless of what the other team did or did not do.
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