Baseball: Spectator steals the ball and becomes a hate figure

Countless boys and girls dream of being able to take an original memory piece home with their idols, regardless of the sport-and apparently also a lot of adults. That is why there are real battles in the stands, in which men and women forget their good nursery.

The most recent example: A viewer in the baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Miami Marlins. When the game ball flew to the stands in the Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, a tumult broke out. In the end, a father had secured the ball and gave it to his son. However, a woman did not want to accept that: she ran after the man and cried him and the boys until the two pulled out the coveted ball again.

With this she seemed to have reached her goal at first – but the viewer did not do a favor. TV cameras caught the scene, the video spread on social media in no time, online the lady became an enemy image. Users covered them with insults, it didn’t take long for their alleged name and employer to circulate.

The woman could have known it better, since there was a recent warning example: At the US Open, an adult tennis fan snapped a boy from the Polish player Kamil Majchrzak. He was also identified as CEO of a company in Poland on the net and heavily insulted.

You can imagine the disappointment of the young baseball fan named Lincoln. His father told NBC that visiting the game was a gift for his tenth birthday. “I felt like the best father when I gave him the ball and hugged him.” Then the woman appeared and said: “This is my ball, they took it away from me.”

In the end, Lincoln still had the much better end. He went home without the ball, but both teams gave him souvenirs. He got a gift bag with different fan articles from the Marlins, Phillies player Harrison Bader even personally presented him with a signed baseball bat. So the father’s balance sheet was conciliatory after the game that was memorable in every respect: “We had a great evening.”