* Real baseball hero

April 26, 2010

Hitting home runs and pitching no hitters are great, but they pale in comparison to what former big leaguer and current Tampa Bay Rays broadcaster Kevin Kennedy accomplished with some fellow passengers on a recent flight.

According to an item in The New York Times punlished April 23, “…Kennedy, the former major league manager now broadcasting for the Tampa Bay Rays, said he was among a group of eight men who subdued a man threatening to blow up an airplane early Friday. Delta Air Lines Flight 2148, from Los Angeles to Tampa, was diverted to Albuquerque, N.M., after a passenger sprayed the first-class cabin with a water bottle, tried to open a cabin door and threatened to blow up the aircraft. Passengers subdued him, and he was taken into federal custody in Albuquerque.”


 

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