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"Richie Ashburn hit a foul ball that struck a fan, Alice Roth, squarely in the face, breaking her nose. The game was then paused as medics came in to tend to Mrs. Roth. As they were carrying her away on a stretcher, play was resumed and Ashburn fouled off the first pitch thrown to him. This foul subsequently struck Mrs. Roth as she was being carried off by the medics. Roth was the wife of the sports editor for "The Philadelphia Bulletin", who was there with her two grandsons. The second foul ball broke a bone in her knee. There was blood everywhere." Ashburn later said about the event, "I didn’t mean to do it. When I saw what happened, I felt terrible." The Phillies showered Alice and her grandsons with gifts.They gave her grandson`s, Preston and Tom a baseball signed by all of the players on the team, along with free tickets to future games. In addition, the team gave the young boys a tour of their clubhouse and spent the afternoon talking baseball with them. Preston and Tom visited Alice in the hospital after the Phillies gave them the “star treatment.” One of the boys innocently asked, "Grandma, do you think you could go to an Eagles game and get hit in the face with a football?" Daven Hiskey