Eddie Waitkus of the Philadelphia Phillies is shot with a .22-caliber rifle by an obsessed 19-year-old fan

On June 14, 1949, Eddie Waitkus of the Philadelphia Phillies is shot with a .22-caliber rifle by an obsessed 19-year-old fan named Ruth Ann Steinhagen. Waitkus suffers a collapsed right lung after being shot near his spine but will survive the bizarre attack on his life.

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