A rabid Red Sox fan on Cape Cod bashed a New York man on the head with a baseball bat after he was mistaken for a Yankee fan, cops said.

William Nestor, a commercial diver from Northport, LI, was returning with his family from a Fourth of July fireworks display in Falmouth, Mass., when he was attacked - allegedly because he had New York plates.

"The guy hit me with an aluminum bat," Nestor told The Post after returning home late last night. "I never saw it coming."

Nestor, who was stuck in heavy traffic after leaving the fireworks show at 10 p.m., said he noticed a group of hooligans harassing people in several cars.

But they seemed to be targeting cars with New York plates and cursing at them.

"They were yelling, 'Yankees! Yankees!' and 'F - - - New York' " Nestor, 29, said. "When they saw the plates, they came at me.

"I didn't even know the Yankees and Red Sox were playing" this weekend, added Nestor, who's not a particularly big baseball fan.

The victim was in his car with his wife and parents while his daughter, Kayla, 9, was in a second car with cousins and her aunt and uncle. Nestor's mom, artist Sybil Nestor, said her son asked the mob to calm down.

"William said, 'Hey, guys, I've got the family in the car, would you put a lid on it?' " his mom recalled. "They kept saying stuff, and then they started to approach the car, and William got concerned."

His dad, Bill, said William "stepped out to face the group, and an individual who he had not seen before just stepped out of the second rank of these clowns with a baseball bat and . . . hit him on the head."

The bat thug, identified by cops as Robert Correia, 20, allegedly whacked William's head, body and arms before Grandpa Bill could get into it.

"I'm 69 years old, but I was so pissed off . . . that I swore to myself he wasn't going to hit him a fourth time," Bill said. "I gave [Correia] kind of a football tackle . . . really hard, and got a chokehold on him and flipped him over."

Correia and his cohort took off. But, oddly, Correia walked out of his nearby apartment when cops arrived.

"I said, 'You are the bat boy, aren't you?' And he said, 'Yeah, I'm the bat boy,' " Bill recalled. "And the cops grabbed him immediately."

Correia, now free on bond, was charged with assault. Cops are looking for his cohort.

William Nestor was treated and released at a local hospital. His mom said he was lucky.

"If he caught it on the temple, he could have been killed," she said.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07072008/news/...razy_118830.htm

Hope the poor guy is ok.

Damn Kids.

LMAO, these kind of things between Sox-Yanks fans happen so much. It's like it's a war between races or religion now. It's hilarious though.

LOL, its fucking sad.

I heard about this story from my mother, and I have to admit that this idiot is (IMHO) taking the Sox-Yankees rivarly way too far. This guy should be shot.

I think shooting a guy might be taking it a bit too far too.

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While I agree that this is taking it WAY too far, as far as the Red Sox, Yankees rivalry, I really think that shooting some guy for this is taking it a bit too far as well. Funny how that works.

I think the back and forth of all this is hilarious. Call me a sadist.

All I saw was Cape Cod and Falmouth mentioned. I assumed it was one of my relatives. Guess it wasn't. This time at least.