Zack Hample
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Zack Hample is a New York based writer and Major League baseball collector. In 1999, he published the book How to Snag Major League Baseballs, and in 2007 he finished Watching Baseball Smarter, a detailed guide to the intricacies of the game of baseball, which was the eight best selling American sports book of the year. As of June 8, 2008, Hample has collected 3,449 baseballs from 44 different Major League stadiums. He acquired his first Major League baseball from a Mets reliever at Shea Stadium on June 20, 1990, got his 3,000th ball by using his famous baseball glove trick at Yankee Stadium on May 7, 2007, and set a personal, one-game record with 28 baseballs at Nationals Park on April 10, 2008. Hample caught Barry Bonds' 724th career home run at PETCO Park on August 16, 2006 and caught the first home run of the 2007 Home Run Derby, hit by Justin Morneau at AT&T Park. According to Twin Galaxies, Hample holds official world records on half a dozen classic video games, including Breakout (896 points) and Arkanoid (1,658,110 points).
Hample is also writing the Foreword for Major League Baseball: An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports, a Sports By The Numbers title. [1]
