Nomar rescues two women in Boston Harbor (Cubs SS)

AP/Fox Sports ^ | 10/12/05 | AP

[raccoonradio]

BOSTON (AP) - Nomar Garciaparra rescued two women who had fallen into Boston Harbor, his uncle and a witness told the Boston Herald. Garciaparra, the former Red Sox shortstop who played for the Chicago Cubs last season, was in his Charlestown condominium with his uncle Friday night when they heard a scream and a splash, said the uncle, Victor Garciaparra.

As soon as the two-time American League batting champ ran out the door to help the woman, her friend also fell in, hitting her head on the pier, said Victor Garciaparra, who oversees his nephew's business and charitable ventures. Victor Garciaparra jumped from the balcony to the water 20 feet below. "I swam towards them and by the time I reached them, Nomar was already there holding the girls up," he told the newspaper."But he couldn't get them up without help."

One woman had a large lump on her head and appeared to be unconscious, he said. When she came to, the first thing she said was: "Are you Nomar?" Victor Garciaparra said.

[raccoonradio]

He did what Ted Kennedy could not in 1969.

Also on Boston Herald "Inside Track": http://thetrack.bostonherald.com/moreTrack/view.bg?articleid=106608

From that:
" Garciaparra is the second Major League shortstop to come to a fan's rescue this year. Back in the spring, New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez made headlines when he snatched 8 1/2-year-old Patrick McCarthy of Martha's Vineyard out of the path of a speeding car on Newbury Street.
File Under: Mr. October. "

[Chuckster]

I find it difficult to comprehend two humans so clumsy that they can just "Fall off" a pier into the water. I mean, I'm trying to picture this now. I have lived aboard a small boat for fifteen years and I have been on some pretty wobbly floating docks but the article says it was pier. A pier would be as solid as the earth and, usually, as smooth as a sidewalk.

[jjmcgo]

The last we saw of Nomar he couldn't run two steps without tearing out his groin and now we have a story about him running downstairs, across the pier, etc. Hmmmm.

Of course, if he could have picked up ground balls in the 1999 playoffs, he could have let the women drown for all Sox fans care. /sarc

[raccoonradio]

>>I find it difficult to comprehend two humans so clumsy

I think I know the reason. Cue Brad Paisley:

I can make anybody pretty.
I can make you believe any lie.
I can make you pick a fight with somebody twice your size.
Well, I've been known to cause a few break-ups,
An' I've been known to cause a few births.
Well, I can make you new friends, or get you fired from work.

And since the day I left Milwaukee,
Lynchburg an' Bordeaux, France,
Been making the bars lots of big money,
An' helpin' white people dance.
I got you in trouble in High School,
But College, now that was a ball.
You had some of the best times you'll never remember with me:
ALCOHOL!
Alcohol; Alcohol.

[geopyg]

-----When she came to, the first thing she said was: "Are you Nomar?" ------

Hard to imagine she'd recognize him after being unconscious, disoriented, and Nomar soaking wet. UNLESS she knew Nomar was there ahead of time. Maybe she and her friend decided to go see if they could catch a peek of Nomar at his Condo. "If you stand on the bench and lean waaaay over the railing you can see his balcony."

[Chuckster]

LOL! As if I've never seen a drunken sailor staggering down the dock to his boat after a night ashore. Somehow it just didn't occur to me.

[Chuckster]

Not being a celebrity hound, I didn't think of that one.

[raccoonradio]

There are bars in the area, I believe... :)