Take Me Out: Attack At Comiskey Park

Meet William Ligue, Jr. He's the 34-year-old numbskull who--along with his 14-year-old son--was arrested last night (9/19) for attacking Kansas City Royals coach Tom Gamboa at Chicago's Comiskey Park. With one out in the top of the ninth, the Ligues emerged from the stands behind first base, knocked Gamboa to the ground, and started battering the 54-year-old coach. The elder Ligue, who posed earlier today for this Chicago Police Department mug shot, was hit with an aggravated battery charge, while his progeny Michael faces a juvenile battery charge. Ligue, who claimed that Gamboa flipped his son the bird, has a variety of previous arrests, including 2000 and 2001 busts for domestic abuse--though both cases were later dropped. According to the following Cook County Circuit Court misdemeanor complaints, Ligue was charged last May with striking his girlfriend "in the face, head, neck, back, nose with his fist" and with tossing a brick through the window of his squeeze's crib.

And from the civil docket, Ligue was sued in 1996 for child support payments by the mother of his teenage son (and Comiskey tag team partner). In an Illinois Circuit Court filing, Kristi Embury sought payments retroactive to Michael's February 1, 1988 birth. While the disposition of Embury's petition is unclear, it is nice to see that messy litigation did not get in the way of subsequent pop and son bonding. (4 pages)