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Ballpark jerks shouldn’t grab foul balls from kids, but they don’t need to be put in the medieval stocks over it either

Perhaps you’ve all heard about the grown man who swiped a homerun ball from the hands of an 11-year-old girl at Progressive Field earlier this week?

Well, it happened — and it was caught on the Tampa Bay Rays’ broadcast.

After stealing the ball, the man then looked directly into the camera and ate three small children on live television.

Just kidding! (But you’d think he did by the blowback he’s received).

To be clear, that man, now identified as Max Quinn, was not exactly teaching an Emily Post etiquette clinic at that moment.

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He refused to give the prized homerun ball up to the girl, even after her brother asked him. Then a Rays reporter valiantly came out to deliver baseballs to the siblings. Innings later, Quinn realized what had transpired and returned the one in question to the family.

The girl’s mother, Nikki DeVore, wrote a Facebook post expressing gratitude that the situation, which went viral, was rectified.........

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