Whats your "Area" tradition or rule about what happens with OTF homerun ball?

[nikkilugi]

and make sure to measure to where it lands and not when it stops rolling

No fun

 

[nikkilugi]

You probably know this, but you can google map the field, use the measure tool, and get the distance a ball traveled. It's kinda cool.

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Well now I am going to keep this tidbit for future reference. I learn all kinds of things on this board.

 

[wheresmycar]

Well now I am going to keep this tidbit for future reference. I learn all kinds of things on this board.

I do this a lot in High School ball, lot of high school fields we visit have "unique" dimensions.

This one is in our region, 140 to RF, but the fence is taller... maybe 20' high. 180 down LF line, regular fence.

 

[chinamigarden]

My dd’s home runs and no hitters and the one perfect game. Those balls went right into the practice bucket. Never brought one home.

 

[_MIA_]

My parents kept the first OTF HR I hit. If I had known I was going to quit the next week, I probably would have kept the one (and only) from college

 

[Orange Socks]

I don't go chasing DD's HR balls. (Sounds like a TLC song) Parents will hand them to me. One exception. DD broke the career Grand Slam record. A few innings later I was going to the truck to get some water and saw that noone got the ball. I walked over and grabbed it. 2 weeks later she hit another GS at an away game which I did not attend. I would rather have the video of the HR more so than the ball.

 

[jdint]

Keep the first ones (first travel, first HS).

This is what we did.......and then lost track of them within a week.

 

[Northball]

...you can google map the field, use the measure tool, and get the distance a ball traveled....

Didn't quite work for me on my DD's first HR...

 

[uncdrew]

Didn't quite work for me on my DD's first HR...

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Yeah, you'll have to try again when they're open.

 

[PJR202]

We definitely grab the first HR ball for our HS girls. We have dozens of brand new replacements in the dugout.

I hit several in little league that I don't recall keeping, but my only homerun ball from Babe Ruth league is 5ft away in a "potluck" curio cabinet beside my grandpa's bowling pin trophies and an autographed softball my kids got.