Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Did she get the player’s autograph on it?
That old Municipal Stadium was a cavern. I can still smell the hot dogs,stale beer, and flooded restrooms. But when my dad took me to my first major league game, I remember walking up the ramp and at the top opening was the bluest sky and greenest expanse of grass and the whitest uniforms I ever could imagine. It was nothing short of magical.
Speaking of baseballs, I was at a game with my dad, we were sitting on the first base side which is where he always liked to sit. This was the old Municipal Stadium and I was about 11 or 12. Ray Fosse came up to bat and fouled one off that went a mile up in the air and came down and glanced off the knee of the lady in front of me, and rolled under her chair. They were all scrambling to find it, and there it was, as big as could be, right at my feet, so I picked it up and held onto it. I got a couple of dirty looks from that family I assume because it hit the lady in the knee they felt that they should have gotten the ball, but I thought, hey, finders keepers. I still have it.
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