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Support Pours In For Family Of NY Fourth-Grader Who Died During Little League Game Support Pours In For Family Of NY Fourth-Grader Who Died During Little League Game
Support Pours In For Family Of NY Fourth-Grader Who Died During Little League Game Support from the community is pouring in for the family of a 10-year-boy who died while playing a Little League baseball game. Lazar LaPenna died on Long Island in Long Beach on Friday, April 29, during a Long Beach/Lido Little League baseball game, school district and league officials said. The diehard Mets fan had hit a single during the first game of the season and run to first base with a grin on his face, when he collapsed from an epileptic seizure, reported the Long Island Herald. His older brother, Jerry, was coaching at first base when Lazar collapsed as the crowd was cheering alon…
Donald Hackert Was Pilot, Baseball Coach, Ump, Formerly Of Mount Kisco Donald Hackert Was Pilot, Baseball Coach, Ump, Formerly Of Mount Kisco
Donald Hackert Was Pilot, Baseball Coach, Ump, Formerly Of Mount Kisco Donald Rae Hackert died on Thursday, April 1. Formerly of Mount Kisco and Londonderry, NH, he was a resident of Sebastian, FL at the time of his death. He was a pilot for 30 years, flying for Mohawk Airlines, Allegheny Airlines, and US Airways. The son of Frederick Hackert and Dorothy Glasgow Hackert, Don was born in 1933 in the Bronx. After the death of his mother, his father married Julia Welsh Hackert, who had his four siblings: Thomas, Beverly, Dianne, and Herbert. Don graduated from Mount Kisco High School and served in the U.S. Army in Germany. Afterward, he worked on the ground…