The guy who chases down Alex Rodriguez’s home run balls
Craig Calcaterra Jun 16, 2015, 5:03 PM EDT
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Neat story from the New York Times about a guy named Eddie Fastook, a
somewhat imposing former New York cop who goes into the stands at Yankees
games to attempt to retrieve milestone home runs from fans.
来自New York Times刊载关于一名叫Eddie Fastook家伙的有趣故事，他是一位有些庄严
的前纽约警员，现阶段他出席洋基球赛企图去从球迷手中收回具里程碑意义的全垒打球。
But it’s not a muscle job. Not really. Sure, he “sizes up” fans who have
balls he seeks in order to guess what it might take to get the ball back.
Usually signed merchandise and possibly tickets to a future game. Maybe a
meet-and-greet with the player who hit it. But he usually gets people to
agree to give up the balls. Only three times has he failed to get them back,
all explained in the article.
但这不是份耗劳力的工作，也不完全是。确定的是，他要评估要花多少代价去从球迷手中
拿回他所寻找的球。这代价经常是签名的商品或是未来球赛的门票，也或许是和击出球的
球员见面，他往往都能让人同意放弃纪念球，仅有3次他无法将球拿回，所有的细节说明
都刊载于文章中。
This season he has a challenge: ALL of Alex Rodriguez‘s homers, which A-Rod
himself asked Fastook to retrieve. Seems he wants to give them to his
daughters. He’s gotten most of them. One guy didn’t want to give it up.
本季他有个挑战是收回所有A-Rod所敲出的全垒打球，这是A-Rod本人请求Fastook去收
回。A-Rod似乎是想将这些球给予他的女儿。他几乎已收回大部分的球，仅一个家伙拒绝
将球交出。
Anyway, interesting part of the game we don’t think about too terribly often.
总而言之，球赛中有趣的部分总在我们意想不到之处。
原文出处：http://goo.gl/f4KrWW