fresh YORK -- A baseball fan who s...

fresh YORK -- A baseball fan who skip overed from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium onto the netting behind family plate has been banned for life from the ballpark and could be sent to jail, a arbitrator said Wednesday.

Scott Harper, 19 of Armonk, NY pleaded guilty to reckles endangerment following last season's thrust one's self at the New York Yankees' Bronx stadium. District Attorney Robert Johnson attract favor toed probation and restitution to the Yankees, however Harper rejected the deal.

Harper dropp about 40 feet onto the gin during the eighth inning of an Aug. 10 2005 game against the White Sox After the third disclosed Harper was carried from the ballpark onward a stretcher, his head immobilized in a neck brace, and taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released.

Harper told three friends with whom he was sitting that he was going to proof whether the net would imprison his weight and then skiped police said.

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