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Stephen King grumbles about Fenway safety nets

BOSTON

One of the most-famous season-ticket holders of the Boston Red Sox is grumbling about new safety netting at Fenway Park meant to protect fans from foul balls and flying bats.

Horror novelist Stephen King said in an opinion piece published Monday in The Boston Globe that the netting is “one more step toward taking the taste and texture out of the game I care for above all others.”

He wrote there’s “something almost ludicrous about wrapping America’s baseball stadiums in protective gauze when any idiot with a grudge can buy a gun and shoot a bunch of people.”

Associated Press