DAVID GREENE, HOST:
Good morning. I'm David Greene. So when I went to baseball games as a kid, I would bring my mitt. The dream was to catch a foul ball. Last night, slight variation - a St. Louis Cardinals fan did not have a mitt. She did have leather, though. She lifted her purse up in the air, opened it and a foul ball went right in with so much force, she fell backwards. Other fans gave her an ovation, as did the ESPN announcers.
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UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: That was a great grab - sorry.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: It hurt her back.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: And then it looked like her husband caught her.
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