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Originally Posted by leftygrove10
One of my favor tricks at a minor league game is this.... Sit somewhere behind the dugout, preferably on an aisle where you can get out of your seat easily......... Many times they will just toss it to you.... It has worked several times for me.....
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The same thing happened to my daughter but with a different ending. The Detroit Tigers were playing the Mariners a couple of years ago and there was a significant rain delay. Most of the fans left the ballpark. When the game resumed, Ichiro caught the ball for the last out in the inning. As he was running in to the dugout he spotted my 7 year old daughter all decked out in Tiger gear and he signaled for her to stand up since he wanted to toss the ball to her. Someone 3 rows back and 12 seats over anticipated the throw. As she stood up & caught the ball the man raced over and took the ball out of her mitt.
The entire section saw what had happened. The man was already carrying 3 other balls - presumably from batting practice - and the section proceeded to "boo" and throw trash at him throughout the next inning. It was unrelenting...and he finally left the section to rousing cheers.
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