In the 1980s, Cubbie fans started throwing back home-run baseballs hit by opposing batters. The games were on national TV thanks to WGN and the growth of cable, and by the middle of the decade, fans of other teams started doing it, too. I always thought it was stupid, and I still do to this day, but I digress ...
In 1988, I was at a game at the Metrodome between the Yankees and Twins. Claudell Washington steps up to the plate for the Yankees and launches a long HR over the RF baggy and into the seats. Somebody got the ball, and the fans around him started taunting him: "Throw it back! Throw it back!" So the moron throws it back.
Almost the instant the ball hits the astroturf, PA announcer Bob Casey says, "That was the 10,000th home run in New York Yankees history!"
So because of peer pressure and/or wanting to be "cool" like Cubbie fans, that jamoke threw back a little piece of baseball history!
Don't throw back home-run baseballs, people! Be a leader, not a sheeple!!
We now go back to our regularly scheduled programming ...
I'd want to own Bryon Russell's jock - oh wait - Jordan already owns it!
