NEWSLETTER
When I was younger, I used to bring my glove to every single baseball game I attended. I was never going to be the fool who squandered the rare opportunity to catch a home run ball by letting it bounce off my slick hands.
Of course, the one game I failed to bring my glove to – a Miami Marlins contest at the old stadium they shared with the Dolphins – turned out to be my day of fate. Sitting on the first base side of the infield, a pop up came my way. With no glove in sight, I took off my hat, extended my arm out into the sky and the ball landed directly in the middle of the webbing.
The problem, though, was the force of the ball hitting my hat took my hat down with it and into the lap of the most evil man in the world behind me.
The fan reached into my hat, now sitting firmly on his lap with the ball inside, pulled out the horsehide sphere I was dying to have and politely handed my empty cap back to me. I was crushed and I never watched a baseball game again. (I kid, of course.)
I’ve told that story a number of times, and in my head I can picture it all perfectly. But for some reason, no one ever sincerely believes the way this series of events unfolded. If it was 10 years later, maybe I would have had a camera with me documenting it as it happened, but no one would be that lucky … would they?
Check out this video of a Los Angeles Dodger fan catching a home run while video taping that very catch:
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It’s unbelievable that he had the camera on and rolling at the exact moment of the hit, but he does and the results are fun and hilarious. Lucky for him, no one will ever disbelieve his moment of fate. Maybe this will become the new catch-a-ball-in-your-beer-and-chug-it.
