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Ball Boy Encapsulates Mets Fandom A Little Too NeatlyThe Mets, not too long ago baseball’s hottest team, gave back a little of their late-summer mojo in a recent series loss to the Braves, and find themselves still tantalizingly outside of the second NL Wild Card spot. They’re still whole worlds better than they were in the first half, and as a result...

Ball Boy Gets His Ass Kicked By Soccer Player For Celebrating A GoalNot every rivalry match is as internationally renown as Spain’s El Clásico or England’s North London Derby. Nevertheless, even the smallest of local derbies often include frankly ridiculous levels of feistiness and aggression. Which explains this video of a grown man pummeling a ball boy after takin...

Brewers Ball Boy Ranges Right For The Heroic Diving GrabHey, look at this ball boy laying out to make the sliding stop on a foul ball in today’s Brewers-Cubs tilt:...

Mets Manager Terry Collins Ejected After Umps Reverse Ball Boy Interference

Today, the Mets found themselves in minor drama that had nothing to do with a rebellious mascot. The umpiring crew initially ruled that the Milwaukee Brewers’ ball boy had interfered with Wilmer Flores’s attempt to catch a fly ball, but after the officials convened to discuss, they reversed the call...

Selfie-Taking, Photo-Bombing Ball Boy Had Best Performance Of Portugal-Wales Game

Where Portugal and Wales failed to actualize their best selves during yesterday’s bland Euro semifinal, this enterprising teen ball boy put together a performance for the ages, one every subsequent ball boy will aspire to replicate....

Twins Ball Boy Lays Out For Catch, Should Immediately Win The Gold Glove Award

For some teams, ball boy is simply a ceremonial position, filled by whichever warm body. But the Minnesota Twins apparently employ real go-getters, and this athletic young buck took very seriously his role of protecting the fans down the first base line....

Ballboy Passes Out, Faceplants 

Venus Williams was just starting out her opening-round victory over CoCo Vandeweghe in Rome at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, when this here ballboy took a dive and fell straight on his face after apparently overheating. Our man will presumably live to ballboy another day after his friends carried...

Ball Boy Eats Wall

A ball boy at the Barcelona Open experienced the hazards of his occupation while running back to his spot. The poor kid tripped into the court wall during today’s match between Teymuraz Gabashvili and Nicolas Almagro....