In 1974 Dave McNally, warming up in the bullpen at Fenway Park, hit a heckler (10 yr old kid) deliberately, and the Orioles ended up setting to keep from being sued…..
The story I read was they had to change the original story, because wire transfers of money for gambling is still a federal offense, and since were talking about a foreign national we would be talking deportation……
Say Zenyattafan, how about horse racing ???