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![MLB Recommends All 30 Stadiums Install Additional Safety Netting](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/zzw6vayeqxtpy7uryfso.jpg)
MLB Recommends All 30 Stadiums Install Additional Safety Netting
Way too many baseball fans got seriously hurt by line-drive foul balls last season, which reignited the debate over whether stadiums should install more safety netting down the baselines. Some crazy people argued that the increase in safety wasn’t worth “obstructing” baseball’s beauty, but MLB has t...
![Yankees Fan Muffs Not One, Not Two, But Three Chances To Catch A Foul Ball](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1452777349064000684.jpg)
Yankees Fan Muffs Not One, Not Two, But Three Chances To Catch A Foul Ball
I want to know everything about this guy. Does he ever bring his glove to the game? How’d he get such expensive tickets? What is his relationship with the woman next to him? After bungling his first chance, did he say to himself “I’m definitely going to catch the next one that comes my way?” How ner...
![Indians Fan Takes A Foul Ball Right Off The Noggin](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1433236082250210705.png)
Indians Fan Takes A Foul Ball Right Off The Noggin
If you don’t have quick hands, the best thing to do when a foul ball is headed your way is move....
![Jackass Fights With Adrian Gonzalez For Foul Ball](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/1431872613173320740.png)
Jackass Fights With Adrian Gonzalez For Foul Ball
So here’s some dickhead wearing a Red Sox cap fighting with Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez for a foul ball. Gonzalez won, but he was obviously pretty pissed off. And why shouldn’t he be? The Dodgers aren’t even playing the Red Sox!...
![Phillies Fan Rips Home Run Ball Away From Old Lady](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Phillies Fan Rips Home Run Ball Away From Old Lady
We’ve been over the ethics of who deserves baseballs that make their way off the field of play before (consult this flowchart) and so we feel it necessary to illustrate this incident from yesterday’s Diamondbacks-Phillies game, in which a Phillyfan pushes aside an elderly woman to grab Maikel Franco...
![Confused Giants Fans Scramble For Invisible Foul Ball](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Confused Giants Fans Scramble For Invisible Foul Ball
The main thing that an adult needs to remember when attending a baseball game is this: it is of the utmost importance to play it cool if and when a foul ball happens to land nearby. Do not fight with another fan while trying to pull the ball out of a trash can, do not snatch the ball from a chil...
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![Young Red Sox Fan Hands Foul Ball To Girl Behind Him, Is The Realest](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/asdmjfnbaeay4yxghwht.png)
Young Red Sox Fan Hands Foul Ball To Girl Behind Him, Is The Realest
This kid was the smoothest person in Fenway Park Friday night. The 12-year-old got a foul ball in the fourth inning of the Blue Jays-Red Sox game, and handed it back to the young girl behind him without any hesitation. She was pretty happy....
![Where To Sit If You Want A Ball](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/rlzcavizfnsrg5vlzbxu.png)
Where To Sit If You Want A Ball
Using data collected manually over the last two years, IdealSeat has identified the sections in which fans are most likely to catch foul balls and home runs at four different ballparks, with the rest on the way....
![Red Sox Fan Dives Across His Row For Foul Ball, Doesn't Get It](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/h6jqpxfyc53adbhmmoaf.gif)
Red Sox Fan Dives Across His Row For Foul Ball, Doesn't Get It
This Red Sox fan just straight-up dove across half the people in his row trying to get a foul ball like he was a member of the secret service trying to take a bullet for the President. He landed on his wife (presumably) and another woman and small child in the adjoining seats. Look how pissed she ...
![Chris Rock "Grabs" Foul Ball, Hands It To A Kid](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/oq7rckmq0f9kzksiluop.gif)
Chris Rock "Grabs" Foul Ball, Hands It To A Kid
Chris Rock took in today's Yankees game and grabbed a foul ball near him, but since he's Chris Rock and has no real need for a foul ball, he tossed it to a kid. That kid not only got a souvenir, but a souvenir from Chris Rock. He looks a little young to have seen Big Ass Jokes, though....
![Kid With Popcorn-Bucket Hat Gets Smoked By Foul Ball, Falls Onto Field](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Kid With Popcorn-Bucket Hat Gets Smoked By Foul Ball, Falls Onto Field
This really couldn't have gone worse for the young fan wearing a popcorn tub as a hat. ...
![Guy Gives Kid A Foul Ball; Kid Throws It Back On Field](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/esgr2sb6l2znf6rzbffk.gif)
Guy Gives Kid A Foul Ball; Kid Throws It Back On Field
The guy in the blue Cardinals hat caught a foul ball right behind the visitors' dugout in St. Louis and kindly gave the ball to a sweet and innocent-looking child next to him. Turns out he was sitting next to Max Demian. He quickly took the ball and fired it back onto the field. Here's what I thin...
![One Triumphant Little Girl Emerges Out Of A Foul Ball Frenzy](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/k7cucqi00luqfjpwqwpn.png)
One Triumphant Little Girl Emerges Out Of A Foul Ball Frenzy
A Michael Morse foul pop floated into the stands in today's Giants-Brewers game, and when it landed, fans descended upon it like wolves upon prey. While those saps were still looking, one girl behind everyone shot up victoriously with the baseball in her hand. ...
![Rangers Fan Gets Hit By A Foul Ball, Grows Big Ol' Bruise](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/mzzio6ybldm9mpxfljcj.png)
Rangers Fan Gets Hit By A Foul Ball, Grows Big Ol' Bruise
The video doesn't show this unfortunate Rangers fan getting hit with a foul ball, but we sure as hell get to see the aftermath. His friend got the baseball while he received a nice bruise for his trouble....
![Young Astros Fan Gets Foul Ball, Licks It, Gets Slapped](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/785259020586897219.gif)
Young Astros Fan Gets Foul Ball, Licks It, Gets Slapped
After receiving a foul ball, a young Astros fan ran up to his seat. After showing it off to his family, he licked the baseball, and received a prompt slap in the face from his sister (we think)....
![Umpire Takes A Foul Ball To The Chest, Flexes](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/783738244318804809.png)
Umpire Takes A Foul Ball To The Chest, Flexes
MLB umpire/country music singer Joe West wasn't nimble enough to avoid Stephen Vogt's foul line drive in Tuesday night's A's-Mets game, so he ended up taking a ball right to the chest. West didn't have the protective equipment of a home-plate umpire, but he was fine....
![No One Can Find Raul Ibanez's Foul Ball](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/773009116368879506.png)
No One Can Find Raul Ibanez's Foul Ball
Raul Ibanez hit a foul ball in today's Angels-Indians game. That's not odd. The odd part is that no one found it....
![Child Suffers For Baseball](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
Child Suffers For Baseball
A young man in San Francisco got smoked in the leg by a ground rule double off the bat of Tyler Colvin. He went down like he had been shot. The only thing that could save his life was being handed the baseball....
![Marlins Fan Gives Foul Ball To Cubs Fan, Who Gives Ball Back To His Son](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/xqp3w9bev81q5p2rvj5y.png)
Marlins Fan Gives Foul Ball To Cubs Fan, Who Gives Ball Back To His Son
At the end of the day, one Marcell Ozuna foul ball made three fans happy at a Marlins-Cubs game, even though only one of them actually got the baseball....