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manchild98
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Crazy.....
The guy who caught the 3,000 hit and home run tonight (Zach Hample) has caught 8,000 baseball in stadiums. He wrote a book in 1999 about catching baseballs. He caught Trout's 1st homer. He caught Bonds 724th. Someone had tweeted yesterday what if you caught ARod's 3,000. He had replied I'd give him a dummy ball and the finger.
After the Red sox fan who caught Rodriguez's Willie Mays-tying home run refused to just hand it back to the slugger, the Yankees season ticket holder who snatched Rodirguez's 3,000th career hit Friday ? a solo bomb ? doesn't want to simply give it to him, either.
No, Zack Hample, 37, of New York City, sounded like he wants to cash in on A-Rod's milestone.
"My intention all along, I've been imagining this scenario as a 1-in-a-million, was not to give it back," Hample said. "You know, just because the guy who got Jeter's 3,000th hit, a lot of people called him an idiot. A lot of people said that he was a wonderful person and extremely generous. And I really think that, whatever you want to do with it is your choice."
He added, "I think that someone like Derek Jeter or Alex Rodriguez, who has made half a billion dollar in his career, doesn't really need a favor from a normal civilian and a fan like me. I don't know right now if I'm going to sell it. I mean, depending on what the Yankees could offer, I would consider giving it back. I'm not giving it back for ? I don't plan to give it back for a chance to meet him and full autographed bats because I don't collect bats, I collect baseballs. Just having this ball is so meaningful to me. I can't believe that I got it."
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2015/06/yankees_fan_wont_just_give_back_alex_rodriguezs_30.html
Honestly, how much money could this ball possibly fetch? I wouldn't think very much at all.