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Let
there be balls.
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National
League drawer I have five filing drawers, each with 144 balls. |
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Game
balls Each drawer has four layers, and in this one, every ball on the bottom was game-used. |
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American
League drawer After snagging 720 balls, I needed a new storage system... |
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Barrels ...and decided to go with 32-gallon barrels which hold 400 balls apiece. |
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CBS
visits |
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28 My 28-ball performance on 4/10/08 at Nationals Park inspired balligraphy... |
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32 ...and when I broke my one-game record with 32 balls on 6/18/09 at Kauffman Stadium, I got a bit more creative. (There are only 31 balls in this photo because I'd given one to a kid. The three balls on the lower right are in Ziploc bags because I'd fished them out of the fountains and they were wet.) |
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Seat The first time I broke double digits at Yankee Stadium, I had to find a new way to photograph the balls. |
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Railing Then I started taking pics everywhere, like here on a railing after a game at Shea Stadium... |
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#7
train ...and on John Rocker's favorite subway line... |
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Hotel
...and in a hotel room in Houston. |
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Duffel
bag I caught 321 balls in 2005, and this is where they lived until I schlepped them to my parents' place and dumped them into a fifth barrel. |
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Dump
Zone If I'm at my parents' place when kids come over, I'll dump out a barrel (or three) and let the little ones frolic. |
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Balls
to the horizon Sometimes I feel the need to get a little artsy-fartsy. |
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Hallway And sometimes I wonder what it'd look like if I took 158 balls and lined them up in a hallway. (Thank God the neighbor's dogs didn't make an appearance.) |
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Pyramid
(1990s version) I built this pyramid back in high school. (Wish I had a better pic.) Want to know how many balls were used? Do the math. The bottom layer is 13 x 13, the second layer is 12 x 12, etc. |
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Pyramid
(2008 version) Bigger. Better. And I had two friends helping me this time. Click here to see more photos of it on my blog. |
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