Jersey youth coach is charged with assault at Yankees game
Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 12:24 AM
Friday night at Yankee Stadium, a New Jersey youth pitching instructor and his brother were charged with assaulting a retired FDNY lieutenant.
Keith Stamler, 32, who grew up in Vernon and was drafted by the Texas Rangers, and his brother, Brad, 34, allegedly threw to the ground former firefighter Richard Kelly, 46, hitting his head against the concrete and then continuing to hit and kick him.
Kelly was with his two sons, ages 13 and 16, his friend Bill Spade and Spade’s two sons, ages 10 and 17.
Keith Stamler is the general manager of ProPlayer, a year-round baseball school in Hawthorne. He recently threw out the first pitch at Ridgewood’s Baseball & Softball Association’s opening day
https://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2012/05/jersey_youth_coach_is_charged.html
Hope fully this fire fighter will press charges against these two idiots.Hopefully all youth teams will also ban him from any coaching duties. Good luck to the fire fighter and bad luck to the two idiots,by the way were thy drinking?
Turf and lights will lead to fights…..
Appears the Stamler brothers more than likely annoyed the firefighter with words but Kelly (firefighter) was the one who threw the first punch. Kelly mentions a “Melee broke out” Why doesn’t he just come out and say, with confiction, that one of the Stamler’s threw the first punch and then I retaliated? A melee indicates, turmoil, confusion. What is he confused about? either they threw the first punch or they didn’t.
Sounds to me like a hot tempered firefighter putting a couple drunks in their place but not assault. I would still like to know who threw the first punch? I don’t think this article is telling the whole story.
Appears the Stamler brothers more than likely annoyed the firefighter with words but Kelly (firefighter) was the one who threw the first punch. Kelly mentions a “Melee broke out” Why doesn’t he just come out and say, with confiction, that one of the Stamler’s threw the first punch and then I retaliated? A melee indicates, turmoil, confusion. What is he confused about? either they threw the first punch or they didn’t.
Sounds to me like a hot tempered firefighter putting a couple drunks in their place but not assault. I would still like to know who threw the first punch? I don’t think this article is telling the whole story.