What part of ‘give the kid the ball’ don’t you get?
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One of the rules of being a baseball fan: Give the kid the ball.
This is particularly true if a player or coach has just tossed a ball to the kid, as Max Venable did at Sunday's game.
The Cubs noticed and the kid still got a ball -- two, actually.
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A Chicago sportswriter claims the kid had already gotten a ball, although there's no evidence that's true.
What do you do if you get a ball and the kid in front of you already has one? You find another kid.
Archive: The rain, a baseball, and a kid with his dad (NewsCut)
[Update] - Taking a ball from a little kid is a bad look. But it looks like social media got it wrong.(Chicago Tribune)
