NEW YORK POST July 7, 2008
A rabid Red Sox fan on Cape Cod bashed a New York man on the head with a baseball bat after he was mistaken for a Yankee fan, cops said.
William Nestor, a commercial diver from Northport, LI, was returning with his family from a Fourth of July fireworks display in Falmouth, Mass., when he was attacked - allegedly because he had New York plates.
"The guy hit me with an aluminum bat," Nestor told The Post after returning home late last night. "I never saw it coming."
Nestor, who was stuck in heavy traffic after leaving the fireworks show at 10 p.m., said he noticed a group of hooligans harassing people in several cars.
But they seemed to be targeting cars with New York plates and cursing at them.
"They were yelling, 'Yankees! Yankees!' and 'F - - - New York' " Nestor, 29, said. "When they saw the plates, they came at me.
"I didn't even know the Yankees and Red Sox were playing" this weekend, added Nestor, who's not a particularly big baseball fan.
The victim was in his car with his wife and parents while his daughter, Kayla, 9, was in a second car with cousins and her aunt and uncle. Nestor's mom, artist Sybil Nestor, said her son asked the mob to calm down.
"William said, 'Hey, guys, I've got the family in the car, would you put a lid on it?' " his mom recalled. "They kept saying stuff, and then they started to approach the car, and William got concerned."
His dad, Bill, said William "stepped out to face the group, and an individual who he had not seen before just stepped out of the second rank of these clowns with a baseball bat and . . . hit him on the head."
The bat thug, identified by cops as Robert Correia, 20, allegedly whacked William's head, body and arms before Grandpa Bill could get into it.
"I'm 69 years old, but I was so pissed off . . . that I swore to myself he wasn't going to hit him a fourth time," Bill said. "I gave [Correia] kind of a football tackle . . . really hard, and got a chokehold on him and flipped him over."
Correia and his cohort took off. But, oddly, Correia walked out of his nearby apartment when cops arrived.
"I said, 'You are the bat boy, aren't you?' And he said, 'Yeah, I'm the bat boy,' " Bill recalled. "And the cops grabbed him immediately."
Correia, now free on bond, was charged with assault. Cops are looking for his cohort.
William Nestor was treated and released at a local hospital. His mom said he was lucky.
"If he caught it on the temple, he could have been killed," she said
What more do you need to hear. Instead of watching the game these idiots are out playing in traffic. Typical Red Sox fan.
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Trooper,
What should I wear to a Yankee's game? My sister from Seattle is dragging me to a Yanks game later this Summer in NY. (I think against the Angels) I'm not a sports fan but do root for the Sox (the home team). If I am going to get beaten for wearing a cap with a "B" on it, I would just as soon not do that. If I was a huge fan it might be another thing...
Hey lot's of people wearing Red Sox stuff who get razzed but if you aren't in the bleachers you should be ok. Plus the hard core fans are kinda priced out of the good seats so if you are in a box you are ok.
But whatever you do don't wear a Met's hat.
It will be great to go to the Stadium for the last time. Get there real early so you can go to monument park. Then have a beer after the game at Stan's across the street while you wait for the crowd to thin out. The best way to go is by subway. Take the 4 train from Grand Central. There's no better feeling than when the train comes out of the tunnel and you see the stadium getting ready for the game. Give yourself a lot of time to get through the security and so you have time to wander around. It will be something to remember dude.
Thanks for the advice!
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