Blooming Prairie Neighbor Hoarding Foul Balls in Real-Life Sandlot Situation

Blooming Prairie neighbor hoarding foul balls in real-life Sandlot situation

Parents in a southern Minnesota baseball league are crying foul over the neighbor who’s hoarding all their foul balls.

Foul balls cause strain between baseball community, neighbors

BLOOMING PRAIRIE, Minn. — "The Sandlot" had The Beast. Blooming Prairie has Jon Peterson and his father, Tom Peterson. In the 1993 film, balls hit into a yard next to the local baseball field were abandoned because the boys feared a big dog that guarded the yard. But, in videos on Facebook, it's the Petersons who have told parents, kids and fans of Blooming Prairie youth baseball teams that they are not to enter Jon Peterson's yard and retrieve …

Rhys Hoskins embarrassingly pimps foul ball during loss

Rhys Hoskins made Rhys Hoskins look very foolish during Thursday’s game. In the seventh inning against the New York Mets on Thursday, the Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Rhys Hoskins was up at the plate with a runner on first and nobody out. With the score tied 1-1 at Citi Field in New York, N.Y., Hoskins turned on a 1-1 offering from New York’s David Peterson and hooked it down the line in left field. Hoskins clearly thought that he had hit a h…