Fans scramble for foul balls at baseball games, cheerleaders throw t-shirts and mini balls and what have you into the stands for fans to scramble for. I have been going to sporting events for fifty years and have never gotten that treasured souvineer. Until tonight. Our seats at the Williams are in the first row of the balcony. Very few people can throw a t-shirt or a mini-ball up there. Janel McCarville is one of them. I couldn’t tell you who threw the ball up there tonight. I didn’t even see it coming right at my face until it was about three feet away. My reactions and hand to eye are still very good. I got my hands on it but bobbled it. The woman next to me got her hands on it and bobbled it. I managed to control it enough to catch it against my body.
I’ve always told myself that if I ever got a ball I would give it to the closest kid. I handed it to the teenage girl next to me.
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one foul ball at Shea Stadium. Once long long ago. That’s it. I was a kid, and kept it for awhile, then gave it to a nephew who thought it was the coolest thing.
you fucking rock.
yup
you do.
the boy caught a shirt at a pep rally once and a mini-ball at a volleyball game. he’s the lucky one.
You most certainly do rock.