Have you ever got a ball at a game before?

Zach Wheat · #1 06-12-2011, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by leftygrove10

One of my favor tricks at a minor league game is this.... Sit somewhere behind the dugout, preferably on an aisle where you can get out of your seat easily......... Many times they will just toss it to you.... It has worked several times for me.....

The same thing happened to my daughter but with a different ending. The Detroit Tigers were playing the Mariners a couple of years ago and there was a significant rain delay. Most of the fans left the ballpark. When the game resumed, Ichiro caught the ball for the last out in the inning. As he was running in to the dugout he spotted my 7 year old daughter all decked out in Tiger gear and he signaled for her to stand up since he wanted to toss the ball to her. Someone 3 rows back and 12 seats over anticipated the throw. As she stood up & caught the ball the man raced over and took the ball out of her mitt.

The entire section saw what had happened. The man was already carrying 3 other balls - presumably from batting practice - and the section proceeded to "boo" and throw trash at him throughout the next inning. It was unrelenting...and he finally left the section to rousing cheers.

MWheat

vintagecpa · #2 06-12-2011, 09:40 AM

A long foul ball off of Palmero's bat when he played for the Rangers. I was always hoping he could sneak into the HOF before all the steroid nonsense started.

ChiefBenderForever · #3 06-12-2011, 10:44 AM

My dad got great seats to see a duel of pitching greats in the dumpy Metrodome the Twins/Whitesox Johan Santana vrs El Duque Orlando Hernandez. Santana threw a wicked curve and a foul ball came screeching towards the us and hit a seat and was headed right at me and I slapped my hands together and caught it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was definately a thrill of a lifetime and so cool to think the last person to touch that ball was Johan and still to this day can't believe it.

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