Fan at Comiskey Park Ejected for Throwing Home Run Ball Back on Field

[godwulf]

Re: Fan at Comiskey Park Ejected for Throwing Home Run Ball Back on Field

Next to garlic fries and The Wave, yelling at a fan to throw a home run ball back onto the field is probably just about the stupidest ballpark "tradition" to come down the road. I see no difference between tossing a baseball from the stands and throwing a beer bottle - eject the tosser in both cases, by all means, and start at Wrigley.

[salukidave]

Re: Fan at Comiskey Park Ejected for Throwing Home Run Ball Back on Field

I'm a Sox fan who, while never having seen a fan get kicked out for throwing a home run ball on the field, is all for it. It's a stupid traditonal on the North Side of town. It doesn't need to take place anywhere else. Why should fans be allowed to throw a ball or anything else on the field? It's just dumb.

[trsent]

Re: Fan at Comiskey Park Ejected for Throwing Home Run Ball Back on Field

I don't know what occurred here, but I agree that yelling at fans to tell them to throw the ball back is a bad custom. Unfortunately, Rangers' fans have picked that up. I saw a fan at a Rangers' game badgered repeatedly until he threw it back.

I'd regard a HR ball of he opponent as a good thing to keep if my tram won anyway. And the fan might have a connection to the other team, or know someone who does.

All the games that a normal guy like myself has attended, and one foul ball line drive off my hand (lost ball, hand hurt for a week, thanks Frank Thomas) and two balls given to me out of the dugout at the end of a game (final out balls) and that is all I have had.

If I caught a home run ball at any park I'd keep it since it would be the first legitimate ball I ever caught.

[coxfan]

Re: Fan at Comiskey Park Ejected for Throwing Home Run Ball Back on Field

I don't know what occurred here, but I agree that yelling at fans to tell them to throw the ball back is a bad custom. Unfortunately, Rangers' fans have picked that up. I saw a fan at a Rangers' game badgered repeatedly until he threw it back.

I'd regard a HR ball of he opponent as a good thing to keep if my tram won anyway. And the fan might have a connection to the other team, or know someone who does.

[trsent]

So, I attended a rare White Sox game since giving up my season tickets after the 1994 partial season shied me away from baseball games.

Late in the game, former White Sox Miguel Olivo hits a home run and the fan in the outfield throws the ball back on the field. A few minutes later security can be seen escorting the fan from the stands.

What's up with that? I know it is a stupid tradition at Wrigley Field for fans to return opposing teams home run balls to the field of play, but I never knew the practice was "illegal".

I don't get it, the ball is part of the game, so technically, an unknowing fan could be returning the ball to the field. Ok, that is far-fetched, but really, they eject fans for this?