How to catch a baseball … without dropping your video camera
Posted by: Richie Rich in Balls, Nice Catch
One of the best things about going to a baseball game is that you can get yourself a souvenir – as in a baseball.
Whether a player gives you one, you pick one up off the field, or you catch it – if it leaves the playing field, you can keep it.
Let’s check on some video of fans catching baseballs (and other balls).
Here’s a first person view of how to grab a batting practice Home Run. This one comes off the bat of the Phillies’ Jayson Werth before Game 4 of the 2008 NLCS at Dodger Stadium. What makes it impressive is that the videographer is the one who catches the ball.
H/T: The Fightins
Impressively, that guy seems to be the King of BP at Dodger Stadium – he’s caught a number of BP Homers - here he is catching a Torii Hunter Batting Practice Home Run.
Wow. Deja Vu.
Speaking of Deja Vu …
Remember when Zack Hample (the undisputed guru of snagging baseballs) caught Home Runs at Yankee Stadium on consecutive nights in September 2008?
I love that dance.
But how about fans who catch balls barehanded while holding something in the other arm? Like Cell Phones, cups of Beer, or … Babies?
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June 2nd, 2009 at 3:13 am
http://www.youtube.com/user/ballhawknet
Every ball last year was caught on video
How bout back to back to back games catching a homerun ?
Or 3 game home runs in one day ?
How bout 2 game hrs in different parks / cities in one day ?
June 30th, 2009 at 1:05 am
one time i caught 6 balls on vacation at nats park. it was a nationals mets game.