True story. I grew up in L.A. and when I was in the 5th grade me and my brother who was in 7th grade were invited by our neighbors to a Dodgers game against the N.Y. Mets. They had two sons roughly our age. The seats were right behind 3rd base about 10 rows up and me, my brother and our friends all took our ball gloves hoping to get a foul ball. It was a night game and Rusty Staub was at bat for the Mets. He hit a high pop foul right toward our area and everyone stood up, all us kids looking up into the blinding lights with our gloves out hoping to catch the errant ball. When we sat down, the ball came plummeting down out of the glare of the lights and clocked my friend who invited me and was sitting beside me right in the eye. The ball hit him so hard it bounced back onto the field. He was knocked out cold and ended up in the hospital with a broken eye socket and a broken nose. He did get a visit in the hospital from Davey Lopes and Ron Cey, if you remember those guys and he received a baseball bat with all the Dodgers autographs. Moral of the story, for me at least is… you have to see the ball to catch it. His moral of the story may vary. Fun times.
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