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A 51-year-old man who fell about 14 feet from the lower level in left field while the Chicago Cubs took batting practice at Miller Park last month has died, according to a Milwaukee County medical examiner's report released Friday.

Stuart S. Springstube, a Weyauwega resident, was wearing Cubs gear and reaching out over the railing down the left field line attempting to catch foul balls April 25 when he tumbled headfirst over the rail and onto the hard dirt below.

Springstube suffered a brain hemorrhage and was taken to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, where he died Wednesday, according to a medical examiner's report.

A Brewers spokesman said last month that Springstube was moving his extremities after he fell. Brewers head athletic trainer Roger Caplinger said Springstube was cut and bleeding from the face but was conscious as he was taken off the field by emergency first responders.

Several of Springstube's relatives were with him when he fell, according to the medical examiner's report. The report gives no indication that Springstube was intoxicated or impaired and says he had not drunk alcohol for 15 years.