Austin Capobianco has grown accustomed to the blowback. It’s been more than three months since the 38-year-old Connecticut man grabbed and pried open the glove of Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts in Game 4 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. He’s received hundreds of texts and voicemails from strangers telling him to go to hell or worse.
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He’s been excoriated on social media — just one penance for a sin witnessed live on television by 16 million people and replayed countlessly online since.
But this winter, not long before Capobianco would receive a letter from Major League Baseball indefinitely banning him from all MLB stadiums, the arrival of
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