Sexy Friday – 20250822

TGIF! I’m on the verge of an afternoon vodka nap, so let’s get this done.

Word Count Filler Time

Hey, baseball is happening. Even though the Mariners have suddenly forgot. But, this allow me to use some filler on balls hit into the stands. I’ll skip the Alice Roth story that got hit by two (2) foul balls of the same batter, but it’s still quite funny.

Robert Cotter
This 11 year old fan changed baseball history. While attending a Phillies game in 1922 he caught a foul ball. At the time, teams were rather cheap so balls hit into the stands were expected to be returned. Cotter didn’t cotton too kindly to that idea and refused to return the ball. As a result he spent the night in jail. The next morning, a judge ordered him to be set free, because, common sense. Although he didn’t get that ball back, he was invited to a Yankees game and got an autographed ball from Babe Ruth. Soon afterwards, thanks to an increase in home runs, teams finally agree to just let the fans keep the baseballs hit into the stands.

Alex Popov
This was the dude that caught Barry Bonds 73rd home run ball at then Pac Bell Park in 2001, only for a huge melee to ensue and the ball end up getting knocked out of his glove. That ball fell to Patrick Hayashi, a college student. As you can imagine, this ball was worth a lot of money at the time and this being America, a law suit was filed for ownership. That trial was held 13 months later with the judge ultimately ruling they both had ownership, the ball should be sold, and they would split the proceeds. By that time, the market for the ball had cooled considerably and it went for a paltry $450k at auction. And for all his troubles, Popov was later sued by his attorney for $473k in unpaid attorney fees.

Jay Arsenault
We return to Pac Bell Park the following season in 2002. Bonds is about to hit his 600th homerun. Jay received a free ticket from three friends to the game and made an oral agreement that if Jay caught number 600 he would sell it and split it among the four friends. Well, of course, Jay caught it and then tried to hide from his former friends. They, of course, sued for breaching their oral contract. Jay decided it wasn’t worth the trouble, sold the ball, and split the proceeds as originally agreed. The ball only fetched 600k, but still a good return for everyone for a ticket.

That’s enough ball talk here. No doubt, there will be more below.

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