Now Taking The Mound: Some Dead Guy’s Ashes
Scattering ashes on a baseball mound: a grand gesture or simply ghoulish? I asked myself that question after reading about Lisa Hasson, who had secretly scattered her father’s ashes on the mound at Shea Stadium 12 years ago, and had been told by team officials that she couldn’t get into the field to scoop some of the mound up to re-scatter it at the new ball park. After an initial story about Hasson’s plight ran in the DAILY NEWS, Mets fans who had been able to scoop up dirt from the mound volunteered to send some to her.
It sounds like a sweet story that these fans would give a piece of Mets history to someone they don’t know. But I think it’s more likely that people read the story, looked at their commemorative clump of the mound and realized, “Oh my God, my hands have been all over SOME GUY’S DEAD ASHES!!!” Followed by them puking liberally and taking an industrial, Karen Silkwood-style shower to wash his remains away.
