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| . . . every fan's dream |
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| Every fan dreams of catching a ball in the stands at a big league baseball game. My first |
| trip to a major league ball park took place in 1959, at the age of twelve, on a field trip with my |
| little league team. At the time, the Los Angeles Dodgers played in the cavernous Coliseum, |
| originally built for the 1932 Olympic games. Some generous sponsor had awarded our group |
| a handful of free tickets for a section of wooden bench seats thirty rows back, high in the right |
| field corner. Prior to the game, during warm-up drills, Frank Howard, the Dodger right fielder, |
| tossed a ball up into the bleachers, and it headed on a line straight for me. Unfortunately, at |
| the last possible second, the kid sitting in the seat directly in front of me jumped up -- and the |
| ball hit him square in the nose. Blood splattered in all directions, and the ball bounced away. |
| Thirty-seven years passed since that day, and I must have attended a hundred big league ball |
| games in a dozen cities across the country, but not a single baseball ever landed remotely |
| close to me again. That is, until . . . |
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Learn more about Major League Baseball at: www.mlb.com |
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Learn more about the Atlanta Braves at: www.braves.mlb.com |
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