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9/30/09 Yankees vs. Royals
There was some blue peeking through the clouds above both Yankee Stadiums.
This was the final regular season home game at NYS, and I had a $0 ticket in the Legends, so I knew it was going to be a good day. That day was helped out when BP started a couple minutes after the gates opened.
There was going to be a lot of BP; I knew I would get at least 3 balls during the day, so when a ball was hit to the wall and I noticed a kid was asking for it a bit to softly, I spoke up and asked the coach to give the ball to that kid instead of me. It worked out because soon after another ball was hit to the wall and the same guy retrieved it. I asked for the ball, and he gave it to me because I “gave the last one away”. It was my 1st ball.
I guess it was a good thing that I let the kid have that first baseball because during the early part of batting practice the batter, Shelly Duncan, hit a home run that was going to land in the 4th row or so. I got in line with the ball and the home run ended up tipping off the kid’s glove and landing in my row. I simply bent down and picked up my 2nd ball.
The early BP, which consisted of Shelly Duncan, Francisco Cervelli, Freddie Guzman, and a couple other people ended and the Yankees came out to throw, so I went over to there.
I stood in the Legends seats, which had about 3 other people in them, and stood right behind Alex Rodriguez. He was long tossing with someone and there was an extra ball lying on the ground.
At one point he took the extra ball and looked at me like he wanted to give it to me. I took a step back and he tossed it over the large net, so I reached up and it sailed straight to my glove, my 3rd ball.
Thinking that all the other players had seen me I headed back into the outfield to try for balls during BP. It was tough in Right Field, mainly because I and two other ballhawks (Rich and Tony) were standing on the same aisle, in about a total of 4 rows. So I had to think differently. Like while standing in the outfield I noticed that a ball was hit down the line. They now have nets there, so the ball bounced off the net and settled near the wall. I grabbed my sweatshirt and headed over there. When I was heading over there, another ball hit off the net and settled closer to the wall, and when it turned out I could only get the latest hit ball. I looped my sweatshirt through my glove and threw it out, knocking the ball closer. When it got close, I leaned over the wall, but my fingertips just touched the ball, so a person put me over a bit more and I picked up the ball, my 4th ball, which will count as a device ball because I couldn’t have gotten it without the device (glove on sweatshirt). It was a very beaten up commemorative baseball.
And that was my 299th ball. My next ball would be number 300, so I paid close attention to who would be the source of that ball. I didn’t know the source.
I hadn’t gotten my 300th ball and the Yankees were coming off the field to let the Royals take BP. I raced over to the dugout and got their in time to see that there was one person who had a ball, but I didn’t know him. I just asked him for the ball and he rolled it to me across the dugout roof, not the way that I wanted to get it, but a ball is a ball, well that one was my 5th ball and No. 300. And there it was.
The Royals were now taking their cuts, so I started heading back to the outfield, but I saw a person signing in the Legends. He looked oddly familiar, like he looked like Jim Leritz, but shouldn’t he be in jail? Apparently not, as it was Jim Leritz. I don’t know what he was doing there, but I got his autograph for my 1st autograph and continued heading to the outfield.
But nothing came out of it. I got shut out (mainly because I brought my LA Dodgers clothing, not Royals), and had to wait for the Royals to wrap up on BP and then I started heading to the dugout. I noticed that John Bale was walking to two baseballs lying on the foul line, so I turned my cap around and ran over. I got there in time and asked John Bale to toss me a ball. He picked up one of the baseballs and tossed it to me over the netting, my 6th ball, which I later gave away.
Then I made my way over to the dugout, but before I could get there they started heading off the field, so I started running there (not a good idea with my stitches). I ran and got there in time, but I didn’t get any baseballs from the players coming off the field. I saw that the manager Trey Hillman had 3 baseballs in his hand, so I asked him for one, and he tossed me my 7th ball, and then walked off.
Here is the baseball:
I don’t know why but as they were coming off the field some baseballs fell down and were lying against the dugout fence, and none of the Royals players bothered to pick them up.
It happened to be that one of the people I know in the Yankees, Tony, picked them up, so I got him to toss one of the baseballs to me, my 8th ball.
There was nothing to do before the game started. I didn’t bother going to try for the Royals’ Pre-Game throwing baseballs because I was going to try and get Derek Jeter’s, and I had a pretty good chance. I knew that before I even got it. Why?
I have noticed that some Yankees always throw their baseballs to certain spots. Alex Rodriguez throws it to a spot behind the inner corner of the dugout, and Derek Jeter always throws it beyond the Legends, to the seats above the partition, a corner spot right next to the staircase that leads into the Legends. When Derek Jeter came out to throw, I went to the spot and observed the competition. One big guy on the steps behind me, not paying attention. That was it. I stood down and watched Jeter slowly. He was throwing the ball, too long it seemed. I was getting impatient. But then all of a sudden he finished. He started coming in. And looked into the crowd, right at me. He threw the ball to me. In this (extremely) blurry photo you can see the ball in mid-air, pointed to by the red arrow. My glove is pointed to by the yellow arrow:
It started sailing to me, but my only competition suddenly saw the people. He reached down for the ball, elbowing me in the face. But I reached out, and kept the ball in my mitt, my 9th ball. It’s great when you try for something, and you get it.
I knew that I would make double digits, trying for a third out ball, pre-inning warm-up ball, or umpire ball. But it took me a while, around the 7th inning to be exact. I noticed earlier that Francisco Cervelli caught a ball that was no longer to be used in the game, and kept it. I didn’t think any of it until I went down for the pre-inning warm-up ball that inning and he looked at me. I waved at him, and he tossed me the commemorative baseball that I assume he got earlier, my 10th ball.
Then my Yankee Stadium record of 11 came into the photo, gotten on 9/8/09. That was the NYS record, I heard of another kid who got 12 on the same day. So maybe I could tie or break that. I would have to try, but when I got to the 9th inning and I still had 10 balls, I wasn’t sure if I could get it. But I got lucky when Rusty Kuntz let the ball sail into the dugout. There were 3 kids trying for the ball, including me. But I was the only one who could see into the dugout, so I was able to get Rusty to toss me the ball, my 11th ball.
I tried for a ball from the people coming off the field, but I came up empty. I thought all hope was lost for a ball, when I forgot, the bullpen! I saw the players coming in from the bullpen, so I looked carefully to see if any of them had any baseballs. I looked and saw that a Hispanic player, with his first number being 5, was pulling a baseball out of his jacket. I saw and started calling out to him, and when he came in, he tossed me my 12th ball, tying the record.
Stats:
- 12 MLB Balls Today
- 1 MLB Autograph Today
- 202 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 241 Total Autographs in this Season
- 307 MLB Balls in this Season
- 328 Total Balls in this Season
- 10 Thrown, 1 Hit, 1 Glove Trick
- 6 BP, 3 Pre-Game, 2 During, 1 After
- Attendance: 46,956
- Competition Factor: 563,472
- 6.53 Balls / 1 Game
- 47 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
- 37 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
9/8/09 Yankees vs. Rays
I haven’t been caught up my blogging lately, I have been busy with school. But I have had some great days recently. And this was one of them.
You know how I got 10 baseballs at Citi Field on September 4? One of the things that makes Citi Field easier than Yankee stadium is that BP is usually started when you enter. This day Yankee Stadium was like Citi Field for a bit.
There was the crowd at the Great Hall:
There was early BP!
The first thing I did was look for easter eggs. I entered the furthest section in RF from home plate and then looked to my left. I saw a baseball lying in a row, just sitting. An usher was walking towards it so I just said:
“I got it.” He stepped back and let me pick up my 1st ball, and also my first easter egg at NYS.
And then I went on a snagging rampage.
I got 4 more batted balls in the span of 9 minutes. It was so quick that I forgot how I got each baseball. None of them were caught on the fly, but I do know that at least for 2 baseballs were ground-ruled doubles and the others were baseballs that landed in the seats and I got them. There were only 2 hitters in early BP; Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera, but I don’t know who hit each one. All I know is that my 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th balls were batted balls not caught on the fly. I would’ve had more had another ballhawk named Steve not been there, and he would have had more balls had I not been there. We each snagged around the same amount of baseballs. In the photo below he is the person standing to the left of me, talking on the phone:
And here are the baseballs, numbers 2-5 (Top Left: Ball #2, Top Right: Ball #3, Bottom Left: Ball #4, Bottom Right: Ball #5):
That was all I got in Right Field because after 10 minutes they switched to righty batters. So I moved over to LF.
And also I know the source of my next ball.
I was standing Left Field trying for home runs. One was hit to my right, un-getable, but I followed its path hoping for a lucky bounce. I didn’t get the bounce, but on the pitch after that one, the batter, Melky Cabrera, lifted a high one that was going to land in the section I was in. But it was going a couple rows over my head. I ran up the steps, and it landed in a seat in the second to last row, a bomb, maybe 410 feet. I went over to the seat and looked in.
It landed in a seat and with its force it went out the bottom and it stayed on the ground. I picked up my 6th ball and checked out the ball to see if it had any unique markings.
It did, and the marking was most likely caused by going through the seat with it’s force:
Early BP ended soon after. The coaches/players/ballboys picked up the balls lying around, and I saw the big Mike Harkey pick up two balls in shallow CF. I called out to him and he tossed me the ball, but it fell short. I leaned way out and down. He gave me another throw, but it was the exact same result as the previous attempt (FYI I am in the corner spot, reaching very low down).
There were no more balls around me, so he walked towards me and picked up another balls. The next throw was high. I had to step back and leap, but I still caught my 7th ball, pointed to by the red arrow below.
Early BP ended had already ended and there were no more baseballs to be snagged, so I posed with my haul:
After early BP it was Old New Yankee Stadium all over again. I got no more balls until around 45 minutes later.
Some Tampa Bay Rays came out to the row while the Yankees were hitting. And only a couple Rays, not the whole pitching staff. One of the pairs of players was Lance Cormier and Randy Choate. I positioned myself above a ball that I could’ve gotten with the glove trick, hoping that when they finished they would pick it up. I didn’t get that ball, but I called out to Lance when he was done. Surprisingly instead of tossing the ball to foul territory he tossed it to me in fair territory. My 8th ball.
I was thinking double digits. It was very likely. But my record of 15? It was possible, unlikely, but I had to try.
By then I figured out that the Rays would not be hitting, only the Yankees. So my record of 15 was more unlikely.
I went back to deep Left Field hoping for a homer from regular BP. I waited and waited and waited until they started kicking people out. It got a bit emptier, good. And pretty soon a fly ball was lifted in my direction. I took a couple steps down and got ready for the ball. I timed my jump and reached out for the ball. There were a couple of people going for it, but somehow I was able to catch my 9th ball on the fly in the tip of my glove.
There was a new usher who was telling me that I could catch a ball. When I caught the ball he congratulated me, asked where I was sitting and made me over to foul territory. He is indicated by the blue arrow in the photo below.
Some Rays were still throwing at the foul line, and a couple baseballs were lying against the wall. I figured that when they were done they would toss the baseballs up, so I put my Rays’ cap on and waited for them to finish. But one of my favorite Yankees was nearby also, Alfredo Aceves. He was talking to someone, so when he finished he walked over to pick up the baseballs. I took off my Rays’ cap and asked him for the baseball in Spanish. Even though I think he has recognized me, and he has seen me get multiple baseballs throughout the course of the year, he still tossed me the baseball, my 10th ball, which broke double digits for the day.
BP was ending and I didn’t have an autograph because not really anyone signed. But I saw a Ray sitting on the wall down the foul line, right next to the corner spot. I ran over there and took out a baseball. I saw that he was number 38, so after looking at my roster I saw that it was Fernando Perez. So I went up to him and got him to sign my 1st autograph, and took a photo with him.
I entered the game with no more autographs and baseballs. I had never gotten 10 baseballs during BP alone at New Yankee Stadium, so I figured that I would be able to get at least one more baseball. So I tried at the dugout, and got nothing. When it was getting late in the game I headed out to the bullpen to try for a baseball. I saw Bobby Ramos, who I had gotten a ball from each time I was at New Yankee Stadium. I shouted his name and asked for a baseball, but he disappeared. I sat down, and then saw a baseball being tossed up and down in the air, almost to tease the fans. But it was too close to the wall. Was it Bobby Ramos trying to give me a baseball? I don’t know, but I tried reaching out and grabbing the baseball. I was unsuccessful, but eventually the ball landed on top of the billboard, so I just reached out and grabbed it, my 11th baseball.
And then people started chanting throw it back. Really? A baseball that I got in the bullpen that I was asking for? Whether or not they were being serious it turned into a big thing, with about 75 people chanting “Throw it back!” and another 50 people chanting “Keep the ball!” I did the obvious and kept the baseball, photographed it, and then went away.
And that would be my last baseball of the night. 11 baseballs set my record at the New Yankee Stadium, but I heard that another person, most likely Steve, got 12 baseballs today. So does anyone know if anybody has gotten more than 12 baseballs at New Yankee Stadium? Who else has gotten double digits at New Yankee Stadium?
Stats:
- 11 MLB Balls Today
- 1 MLB Autograph Today
- 188 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 227 Total Autographs in this Season
- 279 MLB Balls in this Season
- 300 Total Balls in this Season
- 6 Hit, 4 Thrown, 1 Found
- 10 BP, 1 During
- Attendance: 45,350 People
- Competition Factor: 498,850
- 43 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
- 33 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
9/4/09 Mets vs. Cubs
Back at a more generous New York ballpark: Citi Field.
I spent the time outside playing catch with Joe, Gary, Clif and his mom, people I knew from Zack Hample’s blog.
I ran all the way to LF when the gates opened and quickly checked for Easter Eggs. After finding none I saw a player, who looked like Pedro Feliciano, field a ball in CF, about 125 feet from me. Thinking it was Pedro I called out loud “Pedro” and he looked over at me. I opened my glove and he threw me my 1st ball.
But now that I think of it the player was Angel Pagan. Joe thought it was him, so then I looked at him as he got closer and it did look like him. This photo is from far away, but he is the player all the way on the right:
Another ball was hit over to the wall in Left Field, and settled right there, about 2 feet out. I noticed it was an All-Star ball, and since I already had one that I got from a batboy I let Joe go for it and moved over to a regular ball about 20 feet to his left. So soon after a player walked over to my ball to retrieve it, but I didn’t know who it was. But as he bent down to pick it up I noticed that he was Pat Misch.
“Pat, could I have that ball?” I called out. He tossed the ball up to me, but it was short. He gave me another throw,
which this time I got for my 2nd ball.
Then a couple minutes later a homerun was hit. It was to my right, and even thought the seat were still fairly empty, I had some competition; Gary and Joe were there. We all started looking for the ball, which bounced of the ground in a row and skipped into the air, landing in the seats. But none of us knew which row, or seat it was in. We looked everywhere for a couple second, and I saw it. It wasn’t on the ground, or wedged in a seat. It was wedged in the arm rest, as this recreation shows:
There it was. I saw it had multi-colored seams, and I grabbed it, my 3rd ball.
This was my second All-Star Ball from 2008 that I had ever gotten, the first was from a ballboy along the foul line. Getting this ball also made me feel guilty considering that Joe got ignored on the previous All-Star Ball he saw on the warning track. But don’t feel bad for him, Joe got two special balls courtesy of the source of my next ball: Nelson Figueroa.
Nelson and Elmer Dessens were shagging balls and Elmer tossed one to a fan which caused other fans to ask for a ball. Elmer put his finer to his lips to shush the people, so I said:
“Okay everyone has to be quiet now.”
That caused both of them to turn around, smile and then Elmer said:
“Yeah, whoever is quiet for the longest gets a ball.”
So that’s what I did, be quiet. Well at least with my mouth. I slammed my fist into the palm of my mitt and waved my arms to get their attention. It worked, and on the second ball that Nelson fielded after being quiet with my mouth was the one that he tossed to me, my 4th ball. AND it was another All-Star Baseball from last year.
This ball seemed different than the other All-Star Ball. It seemed more out of shape than the other. One logo was bigger than the other and one stamp was mis-stamped on the ball above:
And just for the heck of it here is a photo of Nelson shagging baseballs in Left Field.
Even though Citi Field is much less crowded than New Yankee Stadium I got shutout for Cubs BP. I tried to get some more baseballs, and had a few close calls, but it just that it was I picked the wrong places at the wrong time. I saw a ball on the batters’ eye, and stood there next to it, but then I went over to the bullpen and saw three balls there, so I stayed over there, and then I saw that the ball on the batters’ eye was gone. So it just wasn’t my day.
It was 6:08 and I saw a few people signing near the dugout, so I decided that I should head over there. It turns out that the players were Mets. One of them was Lance Broadway, who I got for my 1st autograph.
I didn’t get the player because I wanted to get to the dugout for the end of BP. I had a lot of time it turned out.
I was able to see a ball about 15 feet out from the dugout, so I asked Cubs’ Coach Matt Sinatro for the ball, but he said “One Minute,” and went to talk to some people. But then a random guy appeared out of the dugout, took the ball and placed it in a random player’s glove. What?
That player turned out to be Mike Fontenot. When he came in he took his glove and noticed something inside of it.
“Mike could I have that ball in your glove?”
He opened the glove, took the ball, and tossed me my 5th ball. You can see me getting the ball at the bottom of the photo, I am inbetween a guy wearing a black shirt and a kid wearing an orange shirt. The acutal ball is two photos down.
Notice the strange purple marking on the ball:
The end of the dugout I was at barely had any players come in it, they all went in the outfield end. Matt Sinatro was still talking to the people. I also noticed that a bucket of baseballs was out. Hmmm…
I position myself behind the bucket (along with Joe and Gary). When Matt Sinatro was finished I got his attention and pointed to the bucket. He walked over, took 2 baseballs out, tossed one to me (my 6th ball) and tossed the other to a little girl, in pink in the photo below.
I moved to the left side of the tunnel to be prepared in case the players throw where they stretch. I noticed Sam Fuld brought his glove to the foul line, indicating he was going to throw there, so when he started signing I asked if I could have his pre-game throwing ball. He said yes, but there was some other people before him.
A translator for who I assume Kosuke Fukudome started throwing with Jeff Baker. When they were done I started asking for the ball, but they tossed it to Aramis Ramirez. Bad, no wait, that meant Aramis would be throwing! Sure enough he did, also with the translator. And when they finished I waved my arms and got the translator to toss me my 7th ball.
Luckily I noticed that when I got that ball Sam Fuld was not looking, so when he finished throwing a couple minutes later I got him to toss me my 8th ball. Two more balls until double digits.
I had gone to only 4 games prior to this one at Citi Field without double digits, but I got double digits at my 2nd regular season game ever at New Yankee Stadium (well 4th game overall), and New Yankee Stadium is much harder to get baseballs at, so I figured that it was due time for it to happen at Citi Field.
And I got some help in the bottom of the third. Third out baseballs usually have a bunch of competition, but the pre-inning warm-up ball barely has any, if there is competition at all. So that was the case in the third. Alan Trammel got the ball tossed to him from Micah Hoffpauir. I called out for it and he tossed me the ball in a hook shot, which I caught for my 9th ball. One more ball…
Clif and Gary had the outfield end of the Cubs’ dugout, and the infield end of the dugout was used up because Alan Trammel thought Joe was me, and Geovany Soto (who gave Joe a ball) thought that I was Joe. So Joe and I decided to head over to the Mets dugout.
We got there in time for the 7th Inning. We both went for the pre-inning warm-up ball, but Luis Alicea ended up tossing it to a college girl in the front row. So for the third out ball, we worked out a plan. Joe would run down to the front row and try for it, and I would stand back and try to stand out to see if he would toss it to me.
Bobby Parnell picked the ball, which was rocketed back to him, and then he 
jogged over to first base and tossed to the ball to Daniel Murphy. By the time he started jogging over Joe and I were in place. I was standing on a chair in the partially-empty third row and started waving my arms to get his attention. I could see Daniel Murphy was looking around to find someone to toss the ball to. He saw me, with nobody near me. There were some adults in the row in front of me, but he didn’t care. He tossed the ball to me. The ball cleared the people in front of me (who were also trying) by about 1 foot and then kept heading towards me. I reach out and started slipping off the chair. I got the ball in my glove, but then I started falling. I fell to the ground, momentarily losing my balance, and the ball was no longer tucked inside my glove. Would it pop out? Nope, it was resting barely in my glove, my 10th baseball.
Stats:
- 10 MLB Balls Today
- 1 MLB Autograph Today
- 187 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 226 Total Autographs in this Season
- 268 MLB Balls in this Season
- 289 Total Balls in this Season
- 9 Thrown, 1 Hit
- 4 BP, 4 Pre-Game, 2 During
- Attendance: 37,953 People
- Competition Factor: 379,530
- 42 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
- 32 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
7/18/09 Yankees vs. Tigers
It’s a good sight to see your home stadium, a major league ballpark, for the first time in 12 days. It’s not a good sight to see nothing happening on the field.
That’s what happened when I got there. I had to wait 30 minutes for just two people, Jose Molina and Tony Pena, to play catch, and they kept the ball. BP Started at about 11:05, 25 minutes late. I started off in Left Field for the first two rounds during which a ballboy tossed me a ball, which was ripped out of my glove. Then two home runs landed in the bullpen. I asked an usher who retrieved the first ball for it, but he handed it to a girl. I asked him for the other ball which was hidden by the benches for the players to sit on. He walked over to the ball,
picked it up, inspected the commemorative logo, and flipped it to me, my 1st ball.
It wasn’t a regular baseball. It wasn’t related to the Mets or the Yankees. It was a type of ball used by a Major League Team in the 2009 season for regular season games. What ball was it?
If you guessed a Metrodome baseball, you are correct!
The Yankees had been in Minnesota just before the All-Star Break, and I already booked a trip for 3 games in August to go to the Metrodome.
But thanks to one particular a**hole usher in the right field bullpen I didn’t get anything for the rest of Yankees BP.
I had to go back into Left Field because they kicked people out, so I took a spot near the foul pole,
and asked Tigers Pitcher Brandon Lyon for his ball when he was done throwing.
(Ignore the missing fragment in the ‘N’)
It took a while for him to be close to finishing up, so while I was waiting there I saw a fly ball flow right in my direction. It flew over me and bounced off a lady’s face, breaking her glasses. Edwin Jackson came over there to see what happened and he ended up staying there to shag baseballs. He tossed one ball to a little boy, but then he tossed me the next ball he got, my 2nd ball.
Then I hit a dry spell. There were no more baseballs to be snagged with the crowd of 46,423 largely arriving early to get a ring from ring day. I was able to get Bobby Seay’s autograph for my 1st autograph of the day and my 2000th MLB Autograph of my LIFE. Not a very interesting 2000th autograph, but I’ll take any autograph I could get. I was in the outfield and I saw him signing on the foul line, so I ran over there and got him to sign.
BP ended and there were 3 baseballs in the bullpen. The usher from before picked up one, then two, but he left the third there! I had to get that ball. The first Tiger that entered the bullpen was bullpen catcher Scott Pickens, but he did his best Ronnie Deck impression and ignored me. The next Tiger in was pitching coach Rick Knapp. I got him to hand me the aforementioned baseball, my 3rd ball.
It was a ’09 Yankees Commemorative Baseball, as was the previous ball I got from Edwin.
I didn’t leave that area just yet because a bullpen coach also existed. After Verlander finished, the coach didn’t give me a ball. But Gerald Laird was leaving, and he took a ball from his pocket and flipped randomly into the bullpen where it settled against the back wall. The coach, Jeff Jones, walked over to the ball and flipped it me my 4th baseball, a regular baseball.
4 balls is low for me, so I wanted another ball to make my average not drop as much as it would with only 4 baseballs.
I did that by going to the Yankees bullpen in the 6th. I asked Mike Harkey for the warm-up ball when they were finished. He nodded, but I ended up waiting for a bit.
Finally in the 8th inning he took a ball and threw me and on-target overhand throw for my 5th ball of the day, and 4th bullpen ball of the day.
Tomorrow I will be inside a stadium 4 hours before the game starts, but I expect only 3 baseballs.
Stats:
- 1 MLB Autograph Today
- 5 MLB Balls Today
- 91 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 130 Total Autographs in this Season
- 146 MLB Balls in this Season
- 167 Total Balls in this Season
- 2 BP, 2 Pre-Game, 1 During
- 4 Thrown, 1 Hand-To-Hand
- 5.84 Balls / 1 Game
- Attendance: 46,423 People
- Competition Factor: 232,115
- 15 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
- 25 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
- 10 Consecutive Games with at least 4 MLB Baseballs
7/5/09 Yankees vs. Blue Jays
This day, I sat in the Legends. My brother had tickets for him and 2 friends, and they had an extra ticket. So he gave it to me. But the thing was that the tickets so far have no price. They were given to us at a price to be named later. I could go on, but that’s the short version.
I still asked the ticket office though what the cheapest ticket was.
“375 dollars.”
Great Price! Although I don’t get how EVERY seat other than the Legends and between the bases on field level are sold out. How did you manage to sell out each Bleacher seat? How did you manage to sell out each Upper Deck ticket? How were you able to sell each ticket in the Main Level? I don’t know, but it must be true because you are the Yankees’ Front Office!
Nothing was going on in the Legends when I arrived.
I got some FREE food first (my total for the day was 1 omelet, 1 bread roll, 2 pieces of honeydew, 2 pieces of pineapple, some steak, 1 starburst pack, ½ a pizza, 2 lobster rolls, 1 cotton candy, and 3 bottles of water.) And then I went into the seating bowl. Pretty soon a bucket of baseballs appeared, so I stood patiently behind it.
Some employees were playing with the balls (no jokes). One guy (who I later saw watering the infield) picked one up and I held up my globe. Surprisingly he flung me my 1st ball.
Above he is the one leaning against the L-Screen.
By 10:45 only recent call-up Jon Albaladejo (who was drafted 564th overall by the Pirates in the 2001 Draft) and Brian Bruney (who was an extra in Kindergarten Cop)were playing catch.
I didn’t get that baseball. But then Andy Pettitte tossed me the ball he used to play catch with. I wasn’t sure whether it was for me or the small kid on my left, but it was heading towards him so I didn’t try to get it, but he missed it. An usher picked it up and then since the kid had already gotten the ball, the usher handed me my 2nd ball.
Since my brother made me feel guilty about leaving the Legends to go into the outfield, I stayed in the Legends for all of Yankees B.P.
Nothing came out of it, except Andy Pettitte. I was able to get him by the dugout for my 1st autograph.
I decided to use the Legends and try to get a ball from Dirk Hayhurst who was throwing down the line a bit. But he rejected me, like he had the day before also. So I moved to the outfield. And when the time came to kick people out, I was good, like Saturday. But to be safe, I avoided the “evil” usher.
But then some trouble came. I moved to right-center to try and get a ball from Dirk who was shagging baseballs there when I saw a line drive. I thought it wouldn’t make it past the first row, so I ran there. But smart me, I forgot line-drives carry (remember that everyone, or this will happen to you.) I misjudged it. It went off my glove, then off my eyebrow bone, and then onto the field. Dirk saw what happened, retrieved the ball, asked if I was O.K., and then tossed me my 3rd ball.
Yeah, thanks. All of this wouldn’t have happened had you just gave me a ball previously. That is what happen when you become stingy you Blue Jays (more Dirk).
An usher was worried about me and the pain died down a lot. He wanted me to go to the first aid room, but I wanted to stay for B.P.
“I’m gonna kick you outta this section if you don’t get ice.”
So I got ice and stayed there, but then I decided ‘screw this’ and I went into the Legends.
I got a spot behind the dugout and waited for B.P. to end. Cito Gaston popped out of the dugout to sign.
“Alright, one at a time.”
So I got him on one fore my 2nd autograph.
I knew that B.P. was winding down, so I memorized each guy at the plate. One guy, Rod Barajas, fouled a ball off the top of the cage and it landed on the foul line. He picked it up, I called out, and he tossed me my 4th ball. With THIS cool mark.
The ball was basically peeling. Any theories?
Then when B.P. ended, I looked for anyone carrying a baseball. Jose Bautista chucked them to other people, but I got ‘ol (John) McDonald to toss me my 5th ball on the way in.
I had nothing happening until the Yankees stretch before game time. I waited where they were stretching, but I noticed Cervelli signing at the dugout. So I ran over there and got there in time to get my 3rd autograph (which makes Brett Tomko the only Yankee whose autograph I have not gotten.)
Nick Swisher then started signing right where I was,
so back I went. I got there in time also, so I got him for my 4th autograph. There was no chance for pre-game warm-up balls considering that Derek Jeter was using the only one.
balls considering that Derek Jeter was using the only one.
And the game was a game of wandering to get third out balls. I got my 6th ball from Dwayne Murphy, the infield warm-up ball. It was tossed at a little kid, who then bobbled it, and I grabbed it since it was right beneath me and I handed it over to him.
At the end of the game I had to choose between an ump ball or the dugout. The collector in me said:
“Dugout.”
But I only got one ball. After all the players had left, a ball was lying on the seat in the dugout. I pointed it out to the usher, who told the ballboy, who tossed me my 7th ball.
A flawless, perfectly rubbed commemorative baseball. Just like an umpire baseball…
(6 pictured because 1 was given away)
Stats:
- 4 MLB Autographs Today
- 7 MLB Balls Today
- 90 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 95 Total Autographs in this Season
- 141 MLB Balls in this Season
- 157 Total Balls in this Season
- 4 BP, 1 Pre-Game, 1 During, 1 After
- 7 Thrown
- 5.875 Balls / 1 Game
- Attendance: 46,320
- Competition Factor: 324,240
- 14 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
- 24 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
- 9 Consecutive Games with at least 4 MLB Baseballs
6/27/09 Mets vs. Yankees
Subway Series, Part 3. Part 1 ended with 5 Baseballs, one of which was My 100th MLB Baseball of the Season. Part 2 ended with another 5 Baseballs, 3 Special Citi Field Baseballs and a bruise on my knee. How would Part 3 end?
Apparently the Jackie Robinson Rotunda isn’t the first gate to open. The Left Field gate opens at the same time. I learned that when I approached Left Field. But First I entered through the JRR, and ran towards left field. I snuck a peek at the field and saw B.P. was on (FINALLY!) But I also saw a baseball lying inches from the wall.
First when I arrived in Left I scanned for Easter Eggs (none), and then I went to work. I lowered my glove, but the way I bundled up my string made the glove not work so well. I lowered it right to the bottom and tried picking it up. But it was too tight. Then Fernando Nieve made an appearance. He took the ball and placed it where my hand goes. Odd, but I’ll take the help. I rose up my 1st ball (And just to tell you, it’s a device ball because he didn’t toss it up to me, he put it in a place that I could only get with a device,) and stuck it in my pocket to wait for some action.
But I would have to wait a bit. A ball rolled right near the wall. I took out the string and was about to lower it, but Mike Pelfrey went to pick it up. It’s quite a drop so I couldn’t lower it before he got there.
15 feet in fact.
“Leave it there! I can get it!”
“What?” He asked a bit confused a tossed me the ball, but it was short and fell back down. Being it was his fault he gave me another throw, and I caught it, my 2nd ball. Oh, it was a Shea Commemorative baseball also.
Even though the Yankees haven’t started to hit yet, the crowd arrived early, and they concentrated into Left Field. Yay! So what I did was I ran to Center Field.
There were only about 15 people there, and this would explain why: It was 415ft from Home Plate.
Yeah, not many balls were going to be hit out here, but I saw that Right Field was also not that crowded, so I went over there. But nothing happened over there, while I saw a couple balls near the wall in Center, so I trudged back over there. But then I saw some balls in the black in center closer to left field, so I went over there, but as soon as I arrived a guard came to pick them up. So I moved back to Center again as a pit stop to re-fuel. Then I ran back over to Right. And all that movement took about 15 minutes.
All of the outfield is bad for snagging. Left Field gets too crowded. Center Field is 415ft from home plate. And Right Field is 18 feet from the ground and blocked by the second deck. I had to wait until Dave Racaniello made an appearance until I got my next ball.
While in Right I made a request to Dave: “Could I have the next ball you get?” He just shrugged his shoulders, but when a ball smacked off the wall in front of me and landed 5 feet in front of me, 20 or so feet down, I called out his name, and he took the ball and tossed me my 3rd ball.
It was far up.
And here are two things to note that happened in Right:
1) I asked Nieve for a ball, but he shook his head after remembering me from left
2) I saw a guard pocketing a ball that landed in the bullpen. I told the guard above in the seats and he just laughed.
So sensing that Right was dead I move back to Center. But needing a batter to hit a ball about 420ft to reach me, no home runs were hit. But there was one batter who was blasting balls towards Center, but just not IN Center. One was hit close enough to the wall that the player who was shagging balls, Bobby Parnell, couldn’t ignore the people asking him, including me. Well he turned around and threw me my 4th ball of the day.
Bobby Parnell is the player just to the right of the top of my glove.
I moved back over to Left Field because I saw two glove trickable (yes, trickable) balls in the black. I didn’t get those, but I did notice that the Mets jogged off the field before the Yankees were even throwing.
Odd… So I had nothing to do with the dugouts being blocked off. I just waited for the Yankees to start hitting. When they did, I had to wait a bit for some action. A BUNCH of balls were hit to the wall, and only Dave Eiland was picking them up, slowly, one by one. But I waited for the pitchers to start, but as they came to the foul line, the fans did also. But that made Left Field a bit less crowded (they moved over to the foul line, as you can see here).
So I ran out to Left Field again.
Nothing came my way for a bit. There were some balls that were hit to the wall towards my Left and Brett Gardner went to retrieve them, so I ran over there to ask him. But when I was close enough to ask him I noticed a guy taking his hat off and jostling for position. So I looked up and what did I see? A ball about .75 seconds away from landing. So when it landed it happened to land right in my row, so all I did was I turned and bare-handed my 5th ball. It was a New Yankee Stadium Commemorative ball with an odd, but cool black mark.
Pretty soon a ball landed inches from the wall by the foul pole. I moved over there and asked the people huddled above it:
“Could I try to get that ball?”
After about 30 seconds my glove was trying to knock the ball closer. I moved it about 2 feet closer; I rose my glove back up, placed a sharpie in it, and lowered my glove again. But when I placed my glove on top of the ball, something happened: the rubber band wouldn’t stretch around the ball. It was too tight, so I was forced to raise it back up and loosen it a bit I was getting nervous and my knees were quaking, literally. The previous attempt had taken around 4 minutes or so. There was a guard nearby, who could clearly see it. I lowered my glove once again after loosening it, after landing on the ball and telling that it was trapped in my glove, I raised my glove up, but now the band was too loose. I was really worried now. I raised my glove back up.
“Don’t give up now kid!” Some guy yelled.
A person behind me asked if he could try to get it if I couldn’t.
“One more try.”
I tightened the band maybe about 1 cm and lowered my glove again. This whole attempt had taken about 10 minutes or so already. I was worried. I remembered reading on Donnie’s blog that security at Citi Field was getting stricter on ball-retrieving devices. My glove was a ball-retrieving device. They took away two other people’s device already prior to this day. Would they confiscate just my string? Or would they be jerks and confiscate my glove? Would they rip up my ticket and saw that was a warning? Or would they eject me? Ok, that last one was too extreme, but this was definitely my last chance, whether I would like it or not. So I lowered it over the ball. The glove touched the ground. The rubber band stretched around the ball. Now would it hold? I raised my glove up and I felt the pleasure of my glove being heavier than normal. So slowly I raised it up, slowly, slowly, slowly, and then pretty soon, my 6th ball was in my hand. People cheered and clapped.
But I risked the trick once more by trying it on a ball (the red circle) that was a few feet out from the wall.
The labels will come in handy, just read on. I arrived over there and asked if I could get it. A kid (the orange circle on the wall) next to me said things repeatedly to me. It annoyed me so much. I took out my string.
“That’s my cousin’s ball; it was tossed to him twice.”
“You’re not gonna get that!”
My string was tangled so I raised it back up and released the tangles so it could go to the bottom. It successfully made it to the bottom, but my sharpie fell out.
“Oh, he’s gonna get it!”
“No wait, it’s too far out.”
“Only a cup trick works.”
I started swinging in a circular motion to knock it closer.
“It’s still too far out.”
I knocked it closer.
“No wait he’s gonna get it! He is!”
SHUT UP!
But before I could pick the ball up, Alfredo Aceves (the orange circle on the field) walked over. He looked at my contraption. He took the sharpie that had fallen to the ground. He took the ball that I was trying to get. So what he did next I didn’t ask for. He signed the ball. I couldn’t do anything. I didn’t want THAT ball signed, but he did it. What was I supposed to say? “DON’T SIGN IT; JUST GIVE ME THE BALL AND SHARPIE???” So he signed it and did what Fernando Nieve did. I raised my glove up and looked at the signed ball. It was my 1st autograph then my 7th ball.
He signed it before I had it, so yeah. But anyway security finally cracked down on me.
An usher told me to come over there after I raised my glove up.
“I’m sorry, but you’re gonna have to stop doing that.”
“Oh O.K. Sorry. I didn’t know.”
“Yeah people high up, they saw you, and they were talking to me on the walkie-talkie.”
“Oh, it’s just that at other parks they allowed it, like at Shea.”
“Yeah there was this one guy who came here a lot. Kamble?”
“Zack Hample?”
“Yeah him, he has like 3,000 baseballs.”
“Actually 4,100 baseballs.”
So that was it. Nothing taken away. Nothing to make me worried. It’s just that I won’t be using the trick at Left Field anymore there. So the glove trick is officially banned in both New York Stadiums. That was the last stuff to happen to me during B.P.
But after B.P. I was talking to a couple when they said the “Knicks Italian Basketball player is here. He’s wearing a red hat.”
See him?
They told me where the player, Danilo Gallinari, was, and I went over there. I approached him, got a photo with him, and got him to sign two tickets stubs for my 2nd autograph so far.
I stayed over near the dugout in hopes of a third out ball, but on the inner corner because a strikeout pitcher was pitching (A.J. Burnett).
In the First: Strikeout, but Jorge rolls the ball back to the mound.
In the Second: Groundout, Tex takes the ball to the other end of the dugout.
Before the Third: I get the infield’s warm-up ball for my 8th ball of the day, courtesy of Mike Kelleher.
A very beaten up New Yankee Stadium Commemorative baseball posed on the ’4′ in the ’42′ dedicated to Jackie Robinson.
At the 7th I moved over to the Mets dugout. I wanted a game used, rubbed up, Citi Field Commemorative ball. So when Sheffield got the inning ending ball, I ran to the First Row. When he came in, he flipped the crowd a ball, which I got, my 9th ball. The type of ball that I wanted.
Stats:
- 9 MLB Balls Today
- 1 MLB Autograph Today
- 1 Basketball Autograph Today
- 2 Total Autographs Today
- 124 MLB Balls in this Season
- 140 Total Balls in this Season
- 83 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 88 Total Autographs in this Season
- 7 BP, 2 During
- 5 Thrown, 3 Glove Trick, 1 Hit
- Attendance: 41,302 People
- Competition Factor: 371,718
- 11 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
- 21 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
- 6 Consecutive Games with at least 4 MLB Baseballs
- 5.9 Balls / 1 Game
Subway Series Part 3: 9 Baseballs and some odd stories to tell…
6/17/09 Yankees vs. Nationals
I arrived just as the gates opened and I had to wait a bit to get in. When I went in I saw Cliff who I knew from Zack Hample’s blog. After I talked to him for a bit I went over to the dugout to try and get Tony Pena’s attention for a baseball.
I wasn’t able to, but to my delight I saw that there would be a special pitcher’s B.P.
It started about 10-15 minutes after the gates opened, and it was the usual round. C.C, A.J, Phil Hughes, Andy Pettitte, Alfredo Aceves…
Well the seats weren’t crowded at that point and a ball was hit to the wall. I ran to the front row and saw that David Robertson had fielded the ball.
“David!” I said. He looked up and flipped me my 1st ball.
I put my ball away and waited for a break in the action to take notes and label it, but the pitcher with a few homers to his name stepped up: C.C.
Well sure enough he hit one out. It traveled about 400ft. I will use this picture to help describe it:
So what happened was I ran to the aisle closest to the bullpen, and I ran through the row with the guy with his hands on his hips. I watched helplessly as the ball landed near the end of aisle about 3 rows from me. It took a lucky bounce and settled against a wall one row down, so I ran over and grabbed it, my 2nd ball, and almost hurting my ankle. It was the same ankle that after I hit a ball in a little league game, I dropped the metal bat right on the ball of my ankle. Ouch.
The Yankee pitchers had come out and I had noticed that they were using a bunch of commemorative balls. The Yankees had switched over to their hitters and the seats had gotten more crowded. I saw that a ball Andy Pettitte was using was commemorative…but I didn’t get that.
. I had to wait for a ball to settle on the grass before the warning track. It came to a stop dead center with the commemorative logo facing me. After a bit of me and other people asking players to pick it up, Phil Coke came over. He took the ball, and did some sort of a blind toss. Well it sailed into a bunch of people, and I wasn’t in the center of it. I saw it bounce off of Cliff’s head, and it bounced right into my awaiting glove for my 3rd ball. I had my glove in a lucky place; I didn’t even move it when I caught the ball. It just landed into my open glove. It was a commemorative logo, like I said, near perfect, with the mark on the ball being a dirt and grass stain from where it settled on the field.
Meanwhile there were many juicy balls laying RIGHT next to the wall that needed no lifting. One of which Cliff got with a cup trick, and another that layed there for a good 15 minutes:
I had it. Next game time a ball rolls to the wall at Yankee Stadium in Right Field, I’m getting it.
Right field had gotten crowded. Left field too, but it was less crowded. I decided to do something I hadn’t done before for a while: go to left field.
It was a bad decision. In the time I spent over there for Yankees B.P, ONE ball left the field and into the stands. The Nationals had come out, but the Yankees were still hitting. I changed into my Bright Red Nationals Hat and my Inaugural Season at Nationals Park shirt.
One ball was hit while the Nationals just started. I saw that it was going, so I bolted up the steps. The ball took a high bounce and settled in a seat. I was right there, but so was an adult who was on my tail. What happened was he grabbed the ball a bit before me; his hand was over the ball while my hand was 2 inches from the ball. He got it, and no hard feelings. It was fair and square.
My 4th ball would come from the Nationals throwing. I remembered Jesus Colome and saw him finish up. I moved over to where he was and I called out “Jesus”. After a bit more talking to his friend, he flipped me the ball,
a cheap, very used up, made in China, Training Ball. Yay, training balls! A Major League Baseball probably costs 3 bucks. A training ball probably costs 50 cents.
After Randy Knorr rejected my request I moved over to where Joe Beimil was finishing up. I got his attention, and instead of tossing me the ball he had been using, he tossed me a ball that was hit there and had been lying there for a while, my 5th ball.
You can tell which ball it was. Right?
Some players (Ron Villone, Wil Nieves) had talked to fans on the wall after they finished. I went over to Ron Villone, who was now signing autographs. It took a bit for me to get the ball out, but I got him for my 1st autograph so far.
I then moved down to Wil Nieves. He was all smiles, very social. He was talking to three girls in #23 Nieves shirts. He was doing anything. I got him to sign my 2nd autograph.
I then saw the open ball bag near him so I asked him:
“Could you get me a ball from the ball bag, please?” I asked while pointing to the ball bag. He gladly walked over, took out a ball, and tossed me my 6th ball, and 111th on the season.
You can see the ball in my glove and the ball bag a bit to the right of Nieves. And then a lady next to me somehow convince Ronnie Beliard in Spanish to come over and sign. I was able to get him on two for my 3rd autograph.
That was it for B.P. I did learn from a worker though that basically the entire NY Giants were here tonight and Peyton Manning…
At about the second inning I went up to see Jane Heller of http://janeheller.mlblogs.com or writer of The Confessions of a She-Fan. Me and her talked for a bit, and she filmed a video of me. You can see it on her blog.
Anyway, remember the Giants were here? Well, I got a stub for the section right behind home plate, 120B. But by the time I got there, only Peyton Manning was left. At the end of the game he walked out, by he wouldn’t sign. I then rushed outside to the Legends exit where I got Doc Godden the other night, but I saw him get taken away by a security guy. Maybe he was going out near Gate 2, so I rushed over there. But there was this guard who kept pointing people around the Press Gate. I just sneaked by him and waited. I also saw Vanessa Williams, the actress. I got her to sign two ticket stubs for my 4th autograph.
But Peyton never showed…
Stats:
- 6 MLB Balls Today
- 3 MLB Autographs Today
- 4 Total Autographs Today
- 111 MLB Balls in this Season
- 127 Total Balls in this Season
- 81 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 86 Total Autographs in this Season
- 6 BP
- 5 Thrown, 1 Hit
- Attendance: 31,906 People
- Competition Factor: 191,436
- 5.84 Balls / 1 Game
- 9 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
- 19 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
6/6/09 Yankees vs. Rays
I arrived early for the first time in eons.
And I saw that. It was sad. But let’s go on!
I went in through the Great Hall just to settle some curiosity. I asked an usher if I could get into the main level now.
“At 11 O’Clock,” he said. “Right now you can visit the Yankees museum on the second level or go to Monument Park.” I started to walk away… “Oh, and you can go into field level.” I choose the later of all the places I could go.
When I went into the field level seats, I waited for B.P. to start. And when it did I went over to the Yankees dugout. Why? Tony Pena, Mick Kelleher, and a pitcher were throwing, in front of the dugout.
I didn’t get the ball, nor did I get a ball from when the Yankee pitchers were throwing.
My 1st ball was a lucky ball. I saw a bullpen session going on in the Yankees bullpen. Some balls were hit there. At the end of one of the two bullpen sessions, I pointed out a ball to Dave Eiland and asked for it. He walked over and tossed it to me. I then had to work it around the corner spot because the ball wouldn’t fit in the opening.
Another over-aggressive adult was here tonight. Let me tell you his story!
I was standing in the front row because Aceves promised me a ball and I was determined to get one. So when a ball was caught by him I asked Aceves for it. He looked at ME and he pointed at ME and then he tossed the balls towards ME (have you gotten yet that it was intended for me?). Well this “adult” shoved me out of the way, and grabbed the ball. Aceves glared at him and what did the “adult” do? Stood right next to me and continued to ask player’s for balls. A ball was hit RIGHT at ME. I didn’t have to me. Well guess what happened. He reached out and bobbled the ball, which dropped onto the field. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad he didn’t get it. I was going to jump up and deflect each ball in the vicinity of him, and if a ball was thrown to his side I would block him from moving. Well when he stepped out of the first row and I took his spot. I think a 5’7″ kid wearing a 12 ½” glove can deflect balls if needed. Well having the annoyance blocked off I was able to get my 2nd, well-deserved ball from Alfredo Aceves (and 91st on the season), who this time put it into my glove (who knows maybe the adult would grab the ball from Aceves’s hand and say “IT WAS FOR ME!”)
After that I went to left field because Tamp was throwing.
I didn’t get any balls (except 2) because there were too many people. I didn’t get any autographs (except 1) because I was trying for balls the entire time. All the excepts came at the end of throwing, all within 5 minutes of each other. Here is what happened.
Randy and Lance Cormier finished throwing. Randy took the ball, put it in his glove, and started signing. I asked him a couple times, but he said no. So figuring he wouldn’t give me the ball, I hid my face, stuck out my hand, and had him sign two autographs (my 1st autograph).
Well when he was finished he ran off, placed the ball, my 3rd ball, into my mitt, and then ran into the dugout. Then a trainer from a distance got my attention. Tom Foley, him, and Evan Longoria had been doing drills.
I didn’t even ask for a ball, but he tossed me my 4th ball. You wanna know how close the time in between getting the two balls was? When the trainer got my attention I had my 3rd ball in my mitt. Wow.
Then B.P. ended. The Rays weren’t taking B.P. apparently, so I wandered over to the bullpen just to look, and I saw bullpen catcher Scott Cursi.
He tossed a ball to someone nearby and I asked him for one also. He said he can’t, but when he walked back into the bullpen I asked him again. This time he wandered over to his bag (in the back right corner of the bullpen),
took out a ball, and walked towards me.
“See if you like this one,” he said and he tossed me my 5th ball. I liked it because it wasn’t what I expected. What was it?
LAST YEAR’S Yankee Stadium commemorative ball! I only had one other of these (rolled to me across the dugout last year by Alexie Ramirez), but this one is mint, except for a “Practice” stamp.
The other baddest (I know it is not a word) mark is this:
Can you see it? I can barely.
Skip forward to during the game since nothing else happened…
Aybar hit a home run into the Rays bullpen. I ran over there and into the bleachers. I asked the always generous Bobby Ramos for:
“La pelota home run”? How do you say “home run” in Spanish? Well he walked over, picked up a ball lying on the ground, and tossed it to me from a considerable distance, my 6th ball. It wasn’t the home run ball, just a regular MLB Ball.
Now earlier I saw Will Ferrell in the Legends. I read an article previously about him being the worst celebrity signer. It’s true. After some hard work to get over there, he blew me off, along with a little kid right next to me. I didn’t like that. I had to get a stub for section 122, row 25, seat 8 and work my way into the right spot for him. Oh, well…
Stats:
- 6 MLB Balls Today
- 1 MLB Autograph Today
- 95 MLB Balls in this Season
- 111 Total Balls in this Season
- 75 MLB Autographs in this Season
- 78 Total Autographs in this Season
- 4 BP, 1 Pre-Game, 1 During
- 4 Thrown, 2 Hand-To-Hand
- 46,205 People
- Competition Factor: 277,230
- 5.9 Balls / 1 Game
- 16 Consecutive Games with at least 3 MLB Baseballs
- 6 Consecutive Games with at least 1 MLB Autograph
Here is a little picture show for you…
He doesn’t look any different. At all.
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