A young, obsessed female fan named Ruth Steinhagen lured Waitkus to her hotel room with a cryptic note and then shot him in the chest, critically wounding him. The Waitkus shooting is said to have inspired Bernard Malamud to write his iconic baseball novel, The Natural
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