Lezcano, Bochte, Espinoza. Great Names from the past. My brothers and I were ball hawks as kids on our yearly trips to the stick. Most are BP. Terry Whitfield, Darrell Evans, Jack Clark twice Al Oliver, Mike Sadek, RJ reynolds Pedro Gurerro, Terry Puhl. Amos otis and Shootie Babbit at hte colliseum. Larry Herndon and earnest Riles were the only game Balls both at the stick. Riles football bleachers. Hetndon bounced off the foul poe directly to my brother walking down the isle. Great Times
Caught Barry Bonds 3rd career homer off Scott Sanderson of Cubs at Three Rivers on 6/9/1986. High soaring shot that would have hit directly on my seat if I had not been sitting there. Easy catch bare-handed. Only time I ever got a souveneir baseball at a game (even a foul ball) before or since.
In the late 1980's the Indians were horrible and the Blue Jays were winning, so a lot of Toronto fans used to come down to Cleveland to see games where they could get tickets. Conversely, for the few Cleveland fans going to Tribe games at the time, you could just walk up at get a General admission seat day of game for $4.
My buddies and I went one time to see the Jays-Tribe and sit out in the cheap seats after work and there are a bunch of drunken Canucks all screaming for their Jays, especially this one big, fat slob who wouldn't shut up.
Anyway, Joe Carter (with thre Tribe at the time) hits a dinger out to us, and this fat clown stands up and starts yelling "I got it, I got it". The ball goes through his hands and drills him right in the forehead. Well, he goes down like a shot, while the ball caroms off his head and gently floats back to me about 6 rows behind him. I just reached out and caught the ball like someone threw it from 10 feet away.
The slob had the ushers come over and check him out. He was a mess so they escorted him to the first aid station, and when he was hobbling up the aisle, you could see this huge mouse of a bruise already forming on his forehead, and I swear, you could see the stitches from the ball on the bruise.
Well, he comes back to his seat about 2 innings later, comes up to me and says, "Uh,.......hey.........can I have that ball"
We nearly laughed him back across the border.
I still have the ball.........
My buddies and I went one time to see the Jays-Tribe and sit out in the cheap seats after work and there are a bunch of drunken Canucks all screaming for their Jays, especially this one big, fat slob who wouldn't shut up.
Anyway, Joe Carter (with thre Tribe at the time) hits a dinger out to us, and this fat clown stands up and starts yelling "I got it, I got it". The ball goes through his hands and drills him right in the forehead. Well, he goes down like a shot, while the ball caroms off his head and gently floats back to me about 6 rows behind him. I just reached out and caught the ball like someone threw it from 10 feet away.
The slob had the ushers come over and check him out. He was a mess so they escorted him to the first aid station, and when he was hobbling up the aisle, you could see this huge mouse of a bruise already forming on his forehead, and I swear, you could see the stitches from the ball on the bruise.
Well, he comes back to his seat about 2 innings later, comes up to me and says, "Uh,.......hey.........can I have that ball"
We nearly laughed him back across the border.
I still have the ball.........
yeah, first year of pac bell park. against the expos, i believe widger
hit it out to center.i'm in the 4th row bleachers and i catch it on the fly. i can't believe it. idiots in bleachers chant throw it back...i foolishly did..i tried to hit marvin bernard in the back. didn't even get close to him. ball slowly rolled to his feet.
but i did get 2 foul balls later at pcb sitting in the expensive seats near home plate.
i wish i'd have kept the HR ball.
hit it out to center.i'm in the 4th row bleachers and i catch it on the fly. i can't believe it. idiots in bleachers chant throw it back...i foolishly did..i tried to hit marvin bernard in the back. didn't even get close to him. ball slowly rolled to his feet.
but i did get 2 foul balls later at pcb sitting in the expensive seats near home plate.
i wish i'd have kept the HR ball.
I got (didn't catch) a von hayes foul ball that landed in an area of bleachers where nobody was sitting. At least 6 kids are scrambling to get it.
After diving over a row of seats, I grabbed the ball.
It still had an astro turf mark from the previous out.
Sol II
After diving over a row of seats, I grabbed the ball.
It still had an astro turf mark from the previous out.
Sol II
