Hit and Run: Plumber's ashes flushed at ballparks
Posted May 02, 2017 7:00 am
NEW YORK (AP) - A New York City man is on a mission to flush the cremated remains of his lifelong friend - a plumber - down ballpark toilets around the country.
Tom McDonald tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/2qodwCS ) that it's a fitting tribute for Roy Riegel.
The two baseball fans were childhood friends in Queens, not far from - wait for it - Flushing Meadows, where the Mets play.
Like baseball, this endeavor has rules. The game has to be in progress when McDonald sprinkles the ashes into the toilet from a little plastic bottle.
So far, he's done the deed at 16 stadiums.
In Cleveland, he flushed ashes at both Progressive Field and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Hank Riegel says his brother "definitely" would approve.
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