New York Yankees: Brett Gardner wants ardent lady fan restrained legally

New York Yankees: Brett Gardner wants ardent lady fan restrained legally

Profiling An Obsessed Fan

Devasahayam is an attractive woman who has co-founded a biotechnology company, GenetikSignal. The company’s Website homepage describes it as “an anti-aging biotechnology company focusing on the mTOR signal transduction pathway “to produce new drug strategies against various cancers and other diseases. The site lists Devasahayam as the chief executive officer holding a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences, with a co-founding organic chemist and three highly-degreed medical professionals on its board.

Steinhagen, by contrast, was an attractive Chicago stenographer who underwent three years’ psychiatric treatment before slipping out of public sight entirely. She lived her final 42 years with her parents and sister on Chicago’s northwest side, according to an obituary in the Washington Post upon her death in a fall at home in 2012. The paper said her withdrawal was so complete her death might have gone unreported if not for a Chicago Tribune reporter searching death records for a completely different story.

What might have transpired if Steinhagen’s obsession, stalking, and shooting of Waitkus had occurred in today’s social media world? A tweet pinned to the top of Devasahayam’s Twitter page, accompanied by a photograph of her posing by a boat pier in a form-fitting denim suit, says, “Heart & Hustle, Hot & Spicy, Lovers & Dreamers, for Yankee Gardy.”

Gardner has been married to Jessica Clendenin since 2007. They have two sons and live during the off-season in Gardner’s native Holly Hill, South Carolina. He’s about to begin his thirteenth season with the Yankees.

Waitkus was a promising first baseman and two-time All-Star when Steinhagen shot him. When he returned to the Phillies for 1950, he played all 154 games as the Phillies won the pennant on the final day, and eventually made an eleven-season major league career.