When watching a Braves vs Marlins game recently on TV, I saw an usher approach a fan who'd gotten a HR ball. It's good now to know what they were doing; they had me worried.

At the NCAA Regional Tournament recently in Columbia, I saw a "yellow-jacket" usher (as we call them, due to their yellow jackets), approach every fan who got a foul or HR. I was alarmed: were they trying to recover the balls? But then I asked a "yellow jacket" what was occurring. He said they were ordered by the NCAA Committee onsite to check with each fan to be sure they weren't injured, even when the fan was dancing around showing off the ball. They got to keep the balls.