How to Snag a Major League Baseball

This is an amazing story about a guy named Zack Hample. He is a New York based writer and Major League baseball collector. As of April 30, 2008, Hample has collected 3,371 baseballs from 44 different Major League stadiums. He acquired his first Major League baseball from a Mets reliever at Shea Stadium on June 20, 1990 and got his 3,000th ball by using his famous baseball glove trick at Yankee Stadium on May 7, 2007.

In 1999, he published the book How to Snag Major League Baseballs, and in 2007 he finished Watching Baseball Smarter, a detailed guide to the intricacies of the game of baseball, which was the eight best selling American sports book of the year.