Giants catcher Buster Posey crushed the spirit of a 12-year-old boy, on multiple occasions, by blowing him off in a simple request for an autograph. Eric Lichtblau of the NYT has the story:
For all the controversies, the kids still had their heroes — at least until we got to Wrigley Field.[My son] Andrew had idolized Buster Posey, the San Francisco Giants catcher, ever since he came back from a season-ending injury in 2011 to win the Most Valuable Player Award the next year. A pair of Cubs-Giants games we would see at Wrigley Field were marked on Andrew’s calendar for weeks, and he came to the park in one of his Posey jerseys and Giants cap, waving an orange sign he made reading: “Posey for Prez!