Dumpster Diving And Ballpark Justice

Faithful NotGraphs reader P. Agnello brought this little dandy to our attention:

Why yes, that would be real Americans digging through real trash for a real foul ball and then getting into a real fight for said Trash Ball.

After the frenzied waste-search led to a frenzied trash fight, ballpark security had to intervene. According the intrepid Todd Kalas: “Bad behavior; nobody gets the prize.”

Leave it to TK to use a semicolon in speech. Well, nonetheless, that real foul ball became real trash in a slightly askew retelling of Solomon’s Judgement, a retelling in which neither mother relents and the baseball ends up in Sheol.

Oddly enough, this may not be the most epic dumpster dive in baseball history.

Little known to history books or Wikipedia, but Joe Carter’s game and World Series-winning home run in 1993 found its way into a Canadian dumpster. Observe how the ball slips just beyond the fence into the realm of the unknown:

Well, that classic dinger found its way into what Canadians call a “rubbish trunk,” whereupon one particular brave fan spent the entire night digging and squishing his way into history.

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