NYC pizzeria owner hospitalized after Aaron Judge foul and asks Yankees star to sign ball as reparation!

A famous owner of one of Brooklyn's most iconic pizzerias, Paul Giannone, ended up in the hospital with a concussion after being hit by a foul ball hit by Aaron Judge in Tuesday's New York Yankees-Seattle Mariners game at Yankee Stadium. As compensation he now wants the slugger to sign the ball that caused the accident in his business, he told the New York Post in an interview.

Giannone, 68, said he was sitting in the lower section of the bleachers of the game against the Mariners when in the seventh inning the Yankees star and major league home run leader hit a high foul fly in his direction. He rushed to protect his wife but got hit instead.

 "When I got up, bang, it hit me in the head," said Giannone, better known as Paulie Gee, the name of his pizzeria.

"I saw the stars. People asked me if I knew what day it was, if I knew my name. I bled out of my hat." The stadium workers gave him ice, someone handed me the ball and he was carried out of the stands to a standing ovation. He was then taken to NYU Langone Hospital, where doctors kept him for observation for about two hours before releasing him.

 

 

 

 

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"I have a concussion, with a big scab on my head... I still have ringing in my ears," said Giannone, who posted a photo of himself in a hospital bed with a swollen head on Instagram.

 A Yankees representative promised to follow up with him about the injury, but no one from the organization has been in touch since.

To make it right, he wants the slugger to sign the ball that hit him in the head, preferably at his pizzeria, which is adorned with items from his beloved team, the New York Yankees.

"I want Aaron Judge to sign the ball he hit me with," Giannone concluded. "I'd love even more to have him come to my store. I think that's only fair."