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Posted By: Mike Campbell

My dad took me to three games of a four game series, around 1964, at the Old Met in Bloomington, Min. Mantle fouled a ball off, and I was sitting in an aisle seat. It came bouncing up the aisle at me. It wasn't coming too hard. I stood up and was about to stop it, and pick it up, when some fat slob, knocked me down, and took the ball. I don't believe I have ever seen my dad quite so mad. I wonder where that fat dink is today ? I recall Tom Tresh jumping up and picking a fly ball off of the right field wall. Much like the Puckett catch we have all seen. Great catch by Tresh.