(Smile File) Young boy gives 80-year-old his baseball souvenir

Another Phillies foul ball story.  A young baseball fan got his dream.  A foul ball at a Major League Baseball game.  Find out why he gave it away to an elderly woman.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A baseball game in Philadelphia between the Phillies and the
New York Mets. Well there was this nine year old
Jamison Pennings and he had the thrill of a lifetime,
as you can imagine, when he snagged his very first
foul ball.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
But when he overheard a nearby spectator named Donna Moory
who was celebrating her eightieth birthday and had never caught
a ball, he made a special decision. He gave that
lady the ball. That's what he said, I want to
give that lady the ball, and sure enough he did.
He handed it to her. And what's really cool is
he got another foul ball later that night from the

(00:37):
Phillies ballgirl. So it was like great karma coming back.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Isn't that neat? Compare that to how the one what
they call her Phillies Karen, Yeah, reacted. That's just neat
and that's why it makes our smile. File