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Damn this is sad.  You go to enjoy a nice baseball game and that’s it.  A woman died after choking on a hot dog at Wrigley Field.  Our thoughts & prayers are with her family.  Report after the jump…

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Via Fox Sports:

Maureen Oleskiewicz, 28, a teacher and huge Chicago sports fan, died after choking on a hot dog on Sunday at Wrigley Field.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Oleskiewicz and her brother were eating before the game when she suddenly fell.

“They’re sitting there eating lunch before the game, looking at the field and the next thing she’s on the floor,” Maureen’s mother, Margaret Oleskiewicz, told the paper. “He didn’t even know she was in distress, and then she’s on the floor.”

Margaret Oleskiewicz also told the Sun-Times that her daughter went into cardiac arrest and never recovered despite efforts to revive her.

“I think it happened about 1:00, it was just before the game started. Matter of fact, I remembered seeing them give her CPR while the National Anthem was playing,” eyewitness Brent Olson said in an email to the newspaper.

“You could see everyone rushing up to the top of the seating with a frantic look on their face. They performed CPR like I’ve never seen,” he said.

The Cubs released a statement.

“The Chicago Cubs are saddened to hear news of the untimely death of Maureen Oleskiewicz. We express our deepest sympathy to her family and friends. We will continue to keep her family in our thoughts and prayers during this difficult time,” the statement said.

Maureen Oleskiewicz was kept alive until Tuesday, so her organs could be harvested. The newspaper reported her heart would be given to a 14-year-old.

 

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