BOSTON -- A lifelong baseball fan, Andrew Lastrapes had been waiting quite a while to scratch a trip to Fenway Park off his bucket list.
But little did the 32-year-old Atlanta man know two months ago when he bought tickets to Saturday's Yankees-Red Sox game that his first trip to the ballpark would be a memorable -- and viral -- one.
Lastrapes, wearing a black T-shirt and sporting a 5 o'clock shadow, set the Internet ablaze Saturday afternoon when, in the top of the seventh inning of New York's eventual 8-5 win over the Red Sox, he threw back a home run ball belted by Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton.