Death At The Polo Grounds
On July 4, 1950, Bernard Doyle, a 56-year old New Yorker originally from Dublin, was accidentally shot and killed in his seat at the Polo Grounds. Doyle had brought with him a friend's thirteen year-old son to see the Brooklyn Dodgers play the Giants, before Doyle was shot about an hour before the game began. A fourteen year-old boy later confessed that he had been shooting a gun into the air from his rooftop at 515 Edgecombe Avenue, unable to see the ballpark due to a 5 ft (1.5 m) parapet in front of him.
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