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Originally Posted by jgross68
Cool picture, indeed.
I've never caught a foul ball at a minor or major league game. My oldest son has a few from kindly ushers that we got at Frisco RoughRider games/batting practice.
When I was about 14, I went to a White Sox game with my parents. We sat in the 2nd row of the upper deck in right field at old Comiskey. At one point, I got up to go get some drinks and while I was at the concession stand I heard the commotion when Harold Baines went yard. When I came back to the seats I asked my dad where the homer went and he told me it sailed right over my empty seat and glanced off his hand when he tried to catch it. Somebody a row or two back came up with it.  |
I've probably told this story before, but you probably don't remember it.
Opening Day 2004, and I was sitting next to two of the guys you don't want to sit next to at a game - loudmouth preppy knowitalls who don't really know anything who talk on their cell phone the whole night. I was sitting in the club (second) level between home and first, which is a prime foul ball catching area. Of course, one of the guys was on his cell when a right-handed hitter lined a scorcher right at us. I yelled 'HEADS UP!' at the guy and he noticed the ball coming his direction.
He stuck his hand out to catch the ball that was coming directly toward him - luckily enough for me, the hand he stuck out still had the cell phone in it. Screaming line drive met phone and ball won. The cell phone burst into a dozen pieces, the guy screamed bloody murder because the collision broke his thumb, and the ball landed right between my feet. While I asked the guy if he was OK, his buddy reaches down and snatches the ball. The guy with the busted cell phone sat the rest of the game with his thumb resting in a cup of ice, while his friend taunted him by repeatedly showing him the ball that made a mockery of him and his phone. The guy did thank me later for alerting him and preventing him from getting hit in the head.