About That Little Girl That Threw Back the Foul Ball

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter

I'm sure most people have seen the clip by now about the little girl at the Phillies game. Whenever I saw it replayed on television the presenters would say something like, "Can you believe it??" or, "Get this....now watch what she does with it...." as if we should be surprised.

Whenever you hand a child a ball what do you encourage them to do with it? Hold it? Put it in their pocket for later? No, you teach them to throw it. Then when the child throws it, you tell them that they did a good job as to encourage them to throw it again next time they have a ball.

Being that the father in the clip seemed to be a Phillies fan, and if he brought his daughter to a game, he probably hopes she will be a baseball fan as well. That being said, I'd imagine she had been handed a ball before and encouraged to throw it, FAR more times than she had been handed a ball and instructed to hold onto it. In fact, she'd probably never been allowed to hold onto a ball in public for that very reason.

I don't blame the father for handing her the ball- when you catch a foul ball, you handed it to the nearest kid, whether you know them or not. But I am not surprised that the little girl threw it, she thought that's what she was supposed to do with it.

As always, big ups to BF Skinner and Carl Rogers.







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