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Good Samaritan Andrew McCutchen rescues Angels fan's lost hat

Sports scholars have long speculated as to the function of those strange men with leather hand-coverings, standing watchfully in the grass at baseball games.

Mystery solved.

On Friday, Andrew McCutchen came to the rescue when a Los Angeles fan dropped his cap from the stands. Just another day on the job for Pittsburgh's foremost professional hat retriever.

-- Molly Fitzpatrick / MLB.com

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