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A cure for foul balls

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Contributed by: Suzy Love on 4/19/2008

Baseball owes me. For several years my Dad would take me to the ballpark where I would hope and wait for a foul ball. There were some near misses, but no luck. My glove got soft just getting in and out of the car and I don't want to think about the men that beat me to the ball more than once.

I grew up in Milwaukee and men like Hank Arron, Warren Spahn and Eddie Mathews were my heros. Milwaukee County Stadium was old, but they played some great baseball there. There were even a few foul balls.

No ball from the souvenir stand was good enough. I wanted a ball that had seen 90mph and the end of bat... a ball that had been around.

Fast forward to Denver, beautiful Coors Field and our own National League champions, the Colorado Rockies. I'm in my late 50's and time is running out. My husband makes a good point that enjoying game should be good enough for most folks, but ,still,there is a hole in my life as a baseball fan.

The way I see it,a nice suite surrounded by 11Rockies fans of my choice would start the healing.No foul balls in the suite, I'm sure, but think of the glory. First of all, the view of the field must be pretty good and then there is the prestige of the grand gesture...taking your family and friends to a Rockies suite.

I suppose the story would have to be told, that Suzy has been determined to snag a foul ball. Then there would be the inevitable laughs at my expense and mature advise that I should get on with my life. Although I'm still hoping for a cure (read foul ball), a game in a suite could be just the ticket.

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