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1. Gamingboy Posted: May 22, 2012 at 09:25 PM (#4138252)caleb is a biblical name
Never knew nobody called Caleb. Must be a real American name.
3. Harveys Wallbangers Posted: May 22, 2012 at 10:00 PM (#4138300)
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caleb is a biblical name
Harv, I think some teabaggers think they are one and the same. </ducking>
i do not understand your post
sorry
If Leake hits another 762 home runs, Andy, I promise to agree with you wholeheartedly. Until then...
I'm pretty sure this is the game: http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN198708240.shtml
An ex-diplomat friend is a big Cubs fan. I took him to a Cubs-Nats game at RFK in '07. Since he is quite tall, I gave him the aisle seat. He drops a pop fly and, alas, the fans boo him. The very next year I took him to another Cubs-Nats game, this time at Nats Park. Christian Guzman pops one up and my friend, who's on the aisle, catches this one and the fans cheer him.
Alas, those two balls are the closest I have ever come to grabbing a foul ball. On the bright side, last season I caught one of those shmatas masquerading as Nats t-shirts that were being heaved into the stands between innings.
I did get one HR ball, which was actually Richie Sexson's 8th inn HR which proved to be the difference in the first regular season game at Miller Park (vs Reds). I had no business getting it, as I sauntered over to meet up with some friends in the Loge Bleachers during the 7th inn and was just hanging out up on the concourse platform beyond the last row of the section and Sexon's ball landed about 4/5ths of the way up, bounced of the benches up to the platform, I simply scooped it up as it rolled towards me. The usher/stadium people did want to work an exchange for a bat and signed ball, I demanded a pair of All-Star game tickets, they refused, I kept the ball.
I've been to hundreds of games too, and the closest I ever came was in the third-base box seats at Yankee Stadium 25 years ago – a foul ball was basically dropping on top of me, and the guy behind, who had a glove on, lunged over my head and caught it. He ended up sort of falling on top of my (then) wife, who was not amused by the whole situation.
Nowadays I tend to sit either behind the screen, or alternatively so far up that baseballs never reach the section. A few weeks ago at CBP in Philadelphia, I had a seat low and up the third-base line, feeling vulnerable when LHBs came up – but nothing ever came near me. I think the odds are just really low: the baseball is small and there are thousands of seats where it might come down.
EDIT: When I was young enough to want to bring a glove to the park, my local stadium was the Vet, and our family budget extended no further than the yellow 700-level seats in center field. Roy Hobbs's big brother couldn't have hit one up there, but you did see kids with gloves on hoping for such an event. Ah, youth.
Does anyone here still take a glove to the game? I use my Mets cap in the unlikely event that a ball gets hit my way.
If I have a glove and I still drop the ball I will feel like a thousand times more of an ass than I would otherwise.
Why would they make that offer? And why would you rather some random home run ball instead of a bat and signed ball?
The home run ball would be more interesting to me than the bat and signed ball. I think if I could have gotten to meet Sexson and get a picture taken that would have been worth more to me than the ball.
It was the first Brewer homer in the history of Miller Park.
And like Jose, I wouldn't make that trade either. Anyone can get or have a signed bat or ball. Getting a home run or foul ball is rare.
However, I would trade a home run ball for a good stack of cash. I'd have held out for quite the fortune if I'd have gotten Jeter's 3000th.
it was presented to me as 'Richie would like to get this HR ball.' I was like 'I want all-star game tickets'. they stuck with the bat and ball trade. I do have a couple of signed balls from players as a kid and now, ten years later, I am very happy to see that ball on my bookshelf, first game at Miller Park, a GW-non walk off HR . Lots of great memories from that day, we paraded that ball around the taverns that night like it was the Stanley Cup.
It wasn't the first HR, but the final HR of the game, and the difference maker in a 5-4 game. I think it was the 4th HR of the game IIRC, M. Tucker hit the first one off J D'Amico. Burnitz also homered.
That's odd. I assumed BBRef listed events such as HRs in chronological order in its boxscores.
I think the opposite is true.
But to each his own I guess.
Can't you go to some card show or some other junket and you can get something signed? With the ball, you're an active participant in its acquisition.
That's how I view it.
I guess its just a matter of taste I guess.
In general, a baseball that is one of dozens that are hit into the stands during a game would be less special for me than an autographed ball or a bat. In this case, I see how it being a GW homerun ball in the debut of a new stadium makes it special.
Let me say it in an obnoxious way: I'm not going to go all Bartman over a random foul ball as if it were made of gold when it's really just something I could buy for $10 and which I'm probably going to play catch with and lose in a few weeks anyway.
Late 70s, early 90s, I'm a 12-year-old at a Jets vs. Bills at Shea Stadium. My friend and I relocated to the bleacher seats during the fourth quarter of a Bills win. After a TD, the Bills get set for the PAT (with record-setting and handicapped-lane eligible kicker Tom Dempsey handling the duties). A bunch of us line up behind the outfield wall under the net, hoping it clears. Just before the snap, a fight breaks out. I tell myself that this will divert the attention of the much larger people around me and I'll be able to catch the ball as it comes straight to me. And sure enough, that's just what happened. Alas, I'm so stunned that my scenario plays out, I never even raised my arms to try to catch the ball and it clangs off my chest (and dammit, I actually had good hands). I walked away in a daze as the others scrambled for the ball.
I doubt I would have emerged from that pile with the football had I caught it, but it was still a giant missed opportunity.
That I agree with. I'd love to catch a foul ball at an MLB game, but I'd probably let my son use it in the yard (as he's done with the Jorgensen ball and the golf balls I made holes-in-one with - balls are made to be used). I'm not really a memorabilia guy to begin with (and thus the autographed stuff has no appeal to me), which is why I'd always opt for the cash. Knowing I'd gotten one would mean something. I wouldn't need the tangible proof.
there was a doubleheader in late september of 1980 where my one son was maybe one of 50 people out in the bleachers and gorman hit a home run to win the first game. he got the ball. then in the second game he was in the area when ogilvie hit one out and there were maybe 5 other people out there since the game started at like 9 p.m.
Other than that, the closest I've ever gotten to a foul ball was during a Indians/Cubs interleague game six years ago. I was sitting in one of the areas down the left field line. In the end, the ball didn't come that close to me, as it landed in the row behind me on the opposite end of where I was. I'm actually shamed to admit that when push came to shove and that ball was heading toward our section, my thought wasn't so much "ooo, gotta catch that," as it was "Holy ####, that thing's going to hit me."
The one and only time I've been to Yankee Stadium, we were in the second deck on the first base side (I think). Don't remember much about it, I was like 8. My mom got hit in the head by a foul ball off the bat of Pete Incaviglia. It must have hurt. I recall the ball bouncing pretty far away from us.
Likewise. Boooooooooooooo!
When one of my sons went to use the restroom, I stood up there near the kid, and sure enough, someone hit a ball right to me. It bounced off my fingers when I tried to make the barehand catch, but landed close enough for me to scoop it up. I figured the kid in the folding chair already had gotten enough of them.
A buddy of mine snagged a foul ball at Candlestick Park with one of the all time great running catches. We were in the box seats behind first base about 12 rows from the field when a right handed batter sliced a foul behind us. Wally jumped up, ran up the aisle to the concourse that separated the field boxes from the regular grandstand seats, and made a fine, running catch of the ball. About two steps after he made the catch he ran right over the hot dog guy; he held onto the ball though.
I do have several dozen balls and various artifacts from minor league games -- sit by the dugout or the bullpen, don't be a #########, and you can damn near walk out with a full equipment set (yes, even at a minor league game where they most certainly are NOT encouraged to toss out warmup balls). My best haul ever was three balls and two broken bats.... It was a late season game in South Bend, there were probably a total of 200 people in the stands, and I just struck up a conversation with the pitchers on the bench.
Come on, people.
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