Hypothetical: You catch someone's first HR ball

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"Wonderdog" tells a great story (a couple times a year) about how when a guy gets his first big league hit his team-mates all sign a ball and write all sorts of crap on it and basically make a mess of it. They gather around and hand it to him and watch the air come out of him as he tries not to look too disappointed. Then they give him his real ball.

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My coaches did that to one of my teammates in Little League. Except, the morons did it with the actual ball. The kid's dad almost started a riot in front of everyone.

One coach wrote something like "Next time, open your eyes," and another wrote, "Here's to your first and last HR." The other coach just put a big "X" with black magic marker (I don't know what he meant." BTW, our coaches were former local high school players about 20 years old.