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Aug 7, 2022 · Four-year-old Jonathan Keane, sitting two rows above the dugout alongside his father, Tom, and 2-year-old brother, had no time to react. The ball struck him in the face, and Jonathan was ...
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Jonathan Keane has no memory of that family trip from his home in Greenland, New Hampshire, to Fenway Park with his father and younger brother Matt. He doesn’t remember the five days he spent in Children’s Hospital, but he does recall his chance to throw out the Red Sox first pitch of Opening Day in 1983, joining the father of retiring Boston legen...
In the aftermath of his accident, Keane needed constant care, which was primarily provided by his mother, Carol Johnson-Haywood, a special education teacher in the mountains of New Hampshire. “The reality is that it took me a long time to recover,” Keane says. “My mom focused every day on that and was focused on making sure I was healing. She is th...
On Aug. 7 of this year — the 40th anniversary of Keane’s traumatic experience — he and his father appeared with Rice on NESN’s Red Sox pregame show to remember what happened that day. It was a brief conversation that recounted the incident but added one new detail by Rice that took Jon Keane a little by surprise. The 2009 electee into the Baseball ...
Jonathan Keane was 4 years old when he was hit by a foul ball at a Red Sox game in 1982. He credits Hall of Famer Jim Rice for saving his life and inspiring his business philosophy of people helping people.
On August 7, 1982, Jim Rice leapt into the stands to help 4-year-old Jonathan Keane, who had been struck in the head by a foul ball.
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Newspaper photos from 1982, published in the Boston Herald and Boston Globe, show Boston Red Sox star Jim Rice carrying a badly injured little boy out of the stands moments after a ball hit him in the head. That little boy was Jonathan Keane, who now lives in Raleigh.
Sep 26, 2017 · After seeing a young child get hit by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium, Jonathan Keane remembered how the same thing happened to him 35 years ago and how Jim Rice saved his life.
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Jim Rice reunites with Jonathan Keane, on 40th anniversary of Rice rescuing Keane from the stands after the boy was struck by a foul ball.
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Aug 8, 2018 · The foul ball struck 4-year old Jonathan Keane in the forehead immediately creating a large laceration and causing significant bleeding. Onlookers were horrified by both the sight and sound. Jonathan’s father Tom initially thought the foul ball hit the dugout.
