Growing up in a baseball family I know how exciting it is to sit in the stands and try to catch foul balls or home runs. I also know that it’s proper etiquette that whoever touches the ball first gets it.
Unfortunately, one mean spectator was more concerned with grabbing onto a player’s first home run baseball than he was about hitting an older woman!
Joyce Kiner was enjoying a day at the baseball field watching the Phillies in May 2015 when a home run ball came straight for her.
The 63-year-old woman jumped out of her seat and bent over the railing to grab the ball. What she didn’t see was the grown man to her left charging over to do the same thing.
The man slammed his body into her, pushed Joyce’s hand away, and stole the baseball from her — and it was all caught on video by the cameras at the stadium!
“He just put his back and shoulder into me and kind of body-checked me and pushed me out of the way,” Joyce said of the experience. “I stood there looking at him and I was standing there with my hands out like, ‘I can’t believe you just did that, you dog!’”
The team felt so badly that they sent down a shirt for Joyce as well as a bat signed by Phillies third baseman Maikel Franco — the player whose home run ball was stolen from her —and free tickets to another game to meet him.
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