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MLB>Texas Rangers
Think Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton was frustrated that he was stranded overnight in Boston while his wife was in labor back home? Boston baseball fans may recall that Hamilton took himself out of the Sox-Rangers showdown at Fenway Park in the 6th inning last Wednesday night when he got word that the missus, Katie, was close to giving birth to their third daughter. And Daddy was 1,566 miles away! Sadly for Josh, there weren't any flights to Dallas until 6 the next morning. And a private jet wanted $41,000 to airlift the expectant father home. So much for a sacrifice fly! Apparently, all this was weighing on Josh's mind when he got off the team bus at the Westin Copley Place after the 8-4 loss and got into it with some fans. Derek Kilduff told the Track he was one of five people waiting for the visiting ballplayers at the hotel, but when his girlfriend and 12-year-old nephew asked the jock for an autograph, he refused. "My girlfriend continued to walk next to him telling him how my nephew was his biggest fan," said Kilduff. "Hamilton stopped, turned around, got into my girlfriend's face, about 4 inches from her face, and screamed, 'I have a kid on the way and I have to pack!' " "All of the Texas Rangers players were standing there watching this, as a player came over and pulled Hamilton away from my girlfriend," the ex-Rangers fan told us. "Everyone seemed to be in shock, including the people standing outside the hotel. I was in complete shock and speechless after that happened. My nephew was extremely upset. . . . Did he have to scream in her face?" -- Boston Herald
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