A man was ordered held without bail Monday for allegedly beating a New York man with a baseball bat because he thought the man was a Yankees fan.
As it turned out, the New Yorker allegedly beaten in the land of the Red Sox isn’t even a big baseball fan.
Police say Robert Correia, 20, and others spotted a car with New York license plates leaving a fireworks display Saturday. The group approached the car and began yelling about the Yankees, according to the police report.
Police did not identify the victim, but the New York Post identified him as William Nestor, 29, of Northport, N.Y. Nestor said his family was traveling in two cars and stuck in heavy traffic after the fireworks on Cape Cod when he was attacked.
“When they saw the plates, they came at me,” Nestor told the newspaper.
The police report said after Nestor confronted the group of men, Correia went to his nearby apartment in Falmouth and got an aluminum baseball bat, then struck Nestor three times.
But Correia’s lawyer, Robert Nolan, said the man was in his apartment when he noticed a fight outside and grabbed a bat to try to break it up.
“He was trying to defuse the situation,” Nolan said. “The mistake was probably to bring the bat out there.”
The incident is the second in three months involving the Yanks-Bosox rivalry. In May, a New Hampshire woman was charged with second-degree murder and drunken driving in a fatal crash following an argument over the two teams.
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