Baseball Star Killed In Fight Remembered In Mt. Lebanon
MT. LEBANON (KDKA) -- Clint Seymour was an all-around good guy. He was a devoted son, a loyal friend and a talented baseball player.
But Clint's passion for life came to an end in April of 2014.
The 27-year-old had just moved to Charleston, South Carolina.
According to police, he was walking with friends when a fight broke out with another group of people. Clint was punched and hit his head on the concrete sidewalk.
He slipped into a deep coma and later died.
"You sit there and look and you see somebody who you've supported all your life and now you can touch him, but you can't help him, its just sort of an overpowering feeling of helplessness that consumes you," said Clint's father Don Seymour.
Clint's father sometimes still can't believe what has happened. But he refuses to let his son's memory fade away.
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He formed the "Clint Seymour Play Ball Fund." It's an organization that promotes positive character traits through baseball.
"We have tournaments for little kids, we have clinics, we always inject some character development and some life lesson teaching with what we do at those events," Seymour said.
One of those events will take place this weekend, at the Mt. Lebanon High School baseball field, just renamed "Clint Seymour Field."
"He played there for, I can't tell you how many hundreds of games and how many thousands of practices and so forth over the years," Seymour said.
There are touches of Clint all over the field. The dugouts have painted murals that highlight two quotes that were found on Clint's cell phone.
"We want his memory to be perpetuated in a way that brings joy into the life of children and we tell them, you know how you get joy in your life, you get joy in your life by respecting people and you get joy in your life by being determined to be the best you can be," Seymour said.
While life will never be the same for Don, he said he finds some comfort is knowing his son won't be forgotten.
