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Bill Plaschke: Five years after his wife was killed by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium, Erwin Goldbloom still mourns

Five years later, the foul ball still screams, its journey still silences, an impact eternal. Every night before going to bed, Erwin Goldbloom walks to the office of his quiet Camarillo home and taps up a YouTube video on his computer. It is the sound of Nat King Cole singing, "Fascination." It was their song. "She was beautiful," he says. Five years ago, Linda Goldbloom accompanied her ...
Erwin Goldbloom still is reeling over the loss of his wife, Linda Goldbloom, who was killed after a foul ball hit her in the head at Dodger Stadium five years ago.

Five years later, the foul ball still screams, its journey still silences, an impact eternal.

Every night before going to bed, Erwin Goldbloom walks to the office of his quiet Camarillo home and taps up a YouTube video on his computer.

It is the sound of Nat King Cole singing, "Fascination."

It was their song.

"She was beautiful," he says.

Five years ago, Linda Goldbloom accompanied her husband of 59 years to Dodger Stadium for a Saturday night game against the San Diego Padres.

She had the best seat. She had the perfect view. Loge level, third row, on the right side of home plate, Erwin on the aisle next to her, the batters directly in front of her.

She wore blue. She cheered loudly. She stood and sang at the seventh-inning stretch. She sat back down and focused on the field as a one-run duel crept into the start of the ninth inning.

Then a foul ball hit her in the face and killed her.

Five years later, Erwin, 90, serenades his late wife's spirit with a nightly love song while pondering a web

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