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As a freshman at Marquette, I headed to County Stadium in Milwaukee for a late September Brewers-Tigers game. The stadium was pretty empty, and I was sitting in an empty section down the right-field line. A long foul ball landed into an empty area and all I had to do was outrace a few fans to retrieve the souvenir. So I make it clear: This was not a catch of a foul ball! Just a scoop off the cement!

­- John Leusch

My favorite was a left-handed grab of a batting-practice homer walking in stride on the top left-field bleacher at Wrigley Field. Once Anthony Young hit one right to our usual spot - front row, above the storage door. Fans crushed me like a wave, but the ball landed between my wife's feet. She grabbed it and celebrated like she won the lottery. It was a TV highlight we still have on a VHS tape somewhere.

­- Dave Oberhelman

I almost caught a pass from Bears receiver Jeff Graham while in the tunnel at the old Soldier Field after an exhibition game. Then I realized he was tossing his mouthpiece and I was standing next to a garbage can. He was right. I didn't want it.

­- Orrin Schwarz

As a kid, I was able to snag a foul ball off the bat of Ron Santo and a home run ball hit by Billy Williams. Of course, I went home and called all my friends to play a pickup game with those baseballs.

­- John Radtke

Got several deflected pucks in the mezzanine back at the old Chicago Stadium, and several baseballs as a fan or vendor at the ballparks. First one was a Greg Gross foul ball off Clay Carroll in July 1977. Caught in the upper deck. Still have the baseball.

­- Barry Rozner

No.

­- John Dietz

Too many baseballs to count through the years. I will confess to the one I dropped in Seattle about 20 years ago. Walking into former White Sox manager Jerry Manuel's office postgame, the first thing he said was, looking at me, "You flinched."

­- Scot Gregor

I've never come close to catching a ball.

­- Kevin Schmit

No.

­- Patricia Babcock McGraw

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