Pic of "deranged girl" that shot "The Natural"

[deadballfreaK]

I don't want to get off topic, but I couldn't help notice in reading about this case that Ms. Steinhagen's family and friends realized she was not well and they "tried" to get her to get help. I know from personal experience that trying is not enough. YOU GET THEM HELP! God forbid that anyone here would have to deal with such a thing, but I had a close relative and one of my very best friends develop schizophrenia in their late teens. I was like everybody else for a long time. Try to ignore it or make them try to see they need help. Doesn't work. I was having a conversation with one of them one day and I got so alarmed over the things they were saying that I called the police. 15 minutes later two officers were on the scene talking to both of us. They readily saw there was a problem and within an hour the person was hospitalized. Both my family member and my friend suffered through a lot of hospitalizations and medications, but they both came out on the other side and are leading pretty healthy, happy lives. Sorry if that is preachy, but mental illness is not something to ignore.

[cubsfan-budman]

Did anyone else happen to hear the story about this pop up on NPR today? Seemed somewhat fishy to me...they took credit for noticing Ms. Steinhagens obit in a Chicago paper and did not cite this message board for piquing his interest in the story. The fact that this thread would pop up here AND the exact item would be on NPR seems pretty far fetched. The reporter was Bob Goldsboro or similar. I was driving from Austin to Dallas so I may be mis-remembering his last name.

Interesting coincidence at the least.

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by cubsfan-budman

Did anyone else happen to hear the story about this pop up on NPR today? Seemed somewhat fishy to me...they took credit for noticing Ms. Steinhagens obit in a Chicago paper and did not cite this message board for piquing his interest in the story. The fact that this thread would pop up here AND the exact item would be on NPR seems pretty far fetched. The reporter was Bob Goldsboro or similar. I was driving from Austin to Dallas so I may be mis-remembering his last name.

Interesting coincidence at the least.

Yes quite a coincidence. A 60 yo story resurrected hours after it was brought up here.

[insidethewrapper]

Ruth Ann Steinhagen passed away on Dec 29, 2012 at the age of 83. Get John Theodore's book about the incident ( it is non-fiction) called : Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus" . It's available in paperback and hardcover on amazon. The 1984 movie "The Natural" was based on a novel by Bernard Malamud. It was inspired (fictional) by the Waitkus
incident. The real details are in the Theodore book.