Baseball possibly bans ball-collecting freak...

I had one thrown to me during BP at Game 1 of the '98 Series by Andy Pettitte. It was the first time anyone had ever thrown me a ball and then I did something that would have laid Zackie-boy out in a freakin' coma: I turned around and gave it to my little sister, who was at her first baseball game ever.


A few years later, she had it autographed by Sir Sidney Ponson. D'oh!

Anyway, at times, I wonder if Zack reads (or even knows about) this site. Too bad he wouldn't pick up on any criticism, though. The dude has serious issues when it comes to letting go of both his child-hood and obsessions. He's also probably the reason why Manny Ramirez always asks to be traded: Zack's such a stalker that he's scared ManRam out of Boston.

 

Rickey Henderson threw me a ball during BP when I was a kid. It was the night after Nolan Ryan notched his 5,000th strikeout. I really love that ball.

 

I thought this was about Peter King.

 

LJB, I'd hide that some place safe and secret. I wouldn't be surprised if a couple nights from now, a bald-headed geek breaks into your house, steals it, and pushes your kid down a flight of stairs just for the hell of it.

What? You don't have a kid? That's all right, he'll just take one of your neighbors' little ones and use him/her instead. ;D ;D ;D

 

You can have it (and you can push the kid down the stairs), just don't touch the rare books.

You can also have the foul ball I caught off the fearsome bat of Bob Kipper

 

Never caught a ball, although one time at County Stadium, Rickey flipped my section the bird when I was sitting the bleachers. So that was just as cool in my book.

 

That would be sweet as hell. At least have all the ballparks in the Northeast do it, otherwise, who knows how many other paraplegics or retarded kids he'll bowl out of his way in order to get a ball... and send them plummeting to their demise from the upper deck?

 

Remember that "Family Guy" episode where Peter gives Stewie the foul ball as a souvenir? Stewie trades it to the kid next to him and gets a souvenir bat in return. Then he clobbers the kid with the bat and takes back the ball.

"What did you learn?"

Classic stuff.

 

You mean this isn't another Peter King thread.

 

That probably was inspired by a real-life Hample episode.