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Fair Or Foul? Yankee Fan Won’t Give A-Rod 3000th Hit Ball

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Often when a big milestone is broken in baseball, it is very commonplace for the ball used to break the milestone be returned to the person who broke the record.

When Alex Rodriguez hit a home run into the right field seats of Yankee Stadium on Friday for his 3000th hit of his career, naturally there was a made scramble for the valuable souvenir. The fan who recovered the ball was sought out by Yankee personnel so that a trade could be made, so that A-Rod could get the ball back, but it looks like the fan has no intention of giving the ball back to Rodriguez.

Zack Hample, the Yankee fan who was lucky enough to get his hands on the ball, had some very candid remarks when asked if he would make an exchange with Rodriguez (standard protocol in these situations).

I don’t blame the guy for wanting to make a few dollars off the ball personally, I probably would do the same thing in his situation. The quotes on why he is keeping the ball get a bit interesting.

Interesting way to look at it. I get the whole idea of athletes making a ton of money over the span of their career, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t appreciate a keepsake like a 3000th hit ball getting returned to them. Things like that have sentimental value and can’t really have a price put on them.

I’m sure they did call him an idiot. In his case though he was such a huge fan of the Yankees, that he just wanted to make sure Jeter got the ball back and I won’t knock the guy for it.

This is typical protocol, I am curious to know what all was offered once Hample started making it clear he wasn’t going to give the ball back.

This is a bit of a douche comment by Hample. I get you want to keep the ball and all that, but don’t be a prick about it.

Again, Hample being a Class A douche about the whole situation.

Look here, I’m not a Yankee fan by any stretch of the imagination, and I as a fan of the game I certainly wasn’t happy about A-Rod getting popped for steroids. With all that said, I sympathize with him not getting his 3000th hit ball back because it just happened to land in the hands of the biggest jerk in the stadium today.

Again, I’m not knocking Hample for wanting to make a profit off of the ball, but he came off as a complete asshole because it was A-Rod who hit the ball and he wanted to send a message. I would have him much rather just been quiet about why he decided to keep the ball and gone about his business, but instead he decided to be a douche and make sure A-Rod knew that he was a douche.

Maybe I’m all alone in feeling this way, but it just rubs me the wrong way. How you feel about A-Rod not getting the home run ball back? Fair or Foul?

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