It Hits the Fan

Claudio Estrada is major league baseball’s biggest superstar.  The biggest homerun king the game has ever seen.  Fans love him, and his slugging skills are second only to his showmanship.  In what seemed like a routine at-bat, Claudio approached the plate, confidently pointed his bat to the deep left field bleachers, and proceeded to knock a fastball right on target and out of the park. Unfortunately, this dinger smacked a fan right on the noggin, killing him instantly.  While initially brushed off as a tragic accident, evidence starts to come to light suggesting that the victim was no average fan, and this was no average accident.  Was this “accident” actually a skillfully executed assassination?  International tensions flare and nothing is what it seems in the sports-centric global espionage thriller.