foul ball

I think most of us who've been to a Major League Baseball game held onto the hope that at some point we'd get a chance to catch a foul ball, or better yet, a home run shot.

A few weeks ago in this space I posted a piece called "Catching a Foul Ball, Right Way vs. Wrong Way." The wrong way was a guy who tried to grab a foul ball, only to miss it badly, with the ball ending up bouncing off his noggin. For a short, short period of time, he was the poster boy on how not to go after a foul ball...

Pretty much everybody in the crowd at a Major League baseball game would love to catch a souvenir baseball, whether it's a foul ball or a home run. But, like many things in life, there's a right way, and a wrong way to go about it. Example #1 is from Tuesday night's Indians-Royals game...

We've all seen what can happen when a foul ball goes into the crowd at a ballgame. People diving, reaching, pushing, grabbing, etc., just to get that souvenir of the game. We've seen some pretty spectacular catches, too. The guy who made the one-handed grab of a foul ball while holding his infant son, the dude who makes the "hat catch," and the woman who recently caught a foul ball in he