My Fellow Sports Fans, We Have Lost Our Way: How Violence Is Killing America's Favorite Pastime

On Wednesday night as my boyfriend and I drove to dinner, I suggested that we get tickets to a 49ers game sometime soon. He winced. "I don't know," he said. "I've heard those get pretty crazy." I laughed, teased him about getting old, and made a mental note to ask my brother instead. Three hours later, a 24-year-old Dodgers fan was stabbed to death near AT&T Park, home of my San Francisco Giants. For San Francisco sports fans, this story is disturbingly familiar. In 2003, a 25-year-old Giants fa...