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Writer: Give The Kid The Baseball

Say you are watching a baseball game and a player tosses a ball into the stands and you get the ball. What do you do? A couple in Texas is finding out the hard way that A LOT of people say you should give it to the nearest child. It happened at a Texas Rangers baseball game this week. The couple grabbed the ball. The kid cried. It was tragic. (see the video). But should the couple have given up the ball to make the kid happy? One writer came up with a baseball ethics flowchart (see it here). Basically, he concluded there are very few instances in which an adult fan should keep a baseball/SWX. More here.

Question: Would you give a crying kid in the next seat a baseball that you just caught in the stands of a Major League Baseball game?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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