Tot-toting mom catches foul ball
Tiffany Goodwin catches foul ball in front of her husband / Mark Gormus,AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch
You might call Tiffany Goodwini the ultimate multi-tasking mom.
Goodwin, of Fredericksburg, Va., caught a foul ball in a baseball glove on her outstretched left arm at the Richmond Flying Squirrels game Sunday - with her eight-month-old son, Jerry, in her right arm, and her husband, Allen, at her side, poised to catch it himself.
The Squirrels were playing the Harrisburg Senators.
Jerry was wearing a helmet.
And, apparently, that wasn't Tiffany's first catch.
She snagged a line-drive last week.
"We were on our way to the game Sunday," Goodwin told the Richmond Times-Dispatch, "and my husband said he's been waiting 38 years and never caught a foul ball. I told him, 'Maybe you'll get a chance today."'
But it was Tiffany who did the deed.
She told the newspaper, "He said, 'I called you off, I called you off. I could have had it.' But it was already in my glove, and I told him possession is nine-tenths of the law!"
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Doessn't look to me like his calling off was very convincing! I think he should give up and accept the fact that his wife will ALWAYS be the better ball player in the family!
Dad, you need a figure a way to get that baby...
He has a son coming up through the leagues and his son's MOMMY is going to have to coach his son Jerry.
Other than that, anybody from adult on down is exposed to the same risk of catching a line-drive in the face or head. You take your five- or ten-year-old son or daughter to a game and how are they any better equipped to withstand a line drive to the head, fair or foul? I suppose everybody could just stay home. The chance for serious injury is probably multiple times over for driving to and from the stadium than actually being at the game.