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Isn't it about time we left Steve Bartman alone?

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it isn't, but bad things seem to happen to people who torment Steve Bartman, the Chicago Cubs fan who innocently reached for a foul ball nearly six years ago -- and then had his life tied at the ankles and wrists and thrown into a cement mixer. Bartman was just a guy sitting in Aisle 4, Row 8, Seat 113 at Wrigley Field. I was there that same October night, watching that same Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins. The Cubs w ...

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