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Here’s the Hand Transplant Recipient Who was “Booed” by Philly Fans

By Kyle Scott

Published: Jan 3rd, 2014 · 5:08 PM EST

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In his screed earlier today, The Times-Picayune columnist Jeff Duncan claimed Phillies fans booed hand transplant recipient Matthew Scott when he threw out the first pitch at a game in 1999:

In 1999, they booed Matthew Scott, the first person in the United States to receive a hand transplant, after he dribbled the ceremonial opening pitch at a Phillies game with his weakened new hand.

Here is that pitch. Listen carefully for the boos.

Keep listening.

Hear anything, Horton?

Nope.

[The Delco Times actually had a good piece about this very same accusation in 2011. It comes from a GQ article, from which Duncan undoubtedly got his material. Scott wasn’t booed in Philadelphia. He was booed in Cincinnati.]

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