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Sportshour: The Ballhawk

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The Ballhawk

23/06/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Sportshour, The Ballhawk

Meet the record holder for catches in baseball, and he's never been on the field of play!

Meet Zack Hample the record holder for catches in baseball, and he's never been on the field of play!

No one has ever caught more balls in Major League Baseball than Zack Hample and what's more amazing is, he's never been on the field of play.
Zack Hample is a ball hawk : a spectator who attends games to catch as many as possible and he's as famous as he is infamous.

World Cup 2018:

Germany's Political Football
Germany play Sweden on Saturday and there seems to be a link between the team's issues and the political tensions bubbling away back home. Sudha David-Wilp is a fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin and has studied the the similarities between the fortunes of the German national team and the German Chancellor Angela Merkle

FIFA First
Host nation Russia didn't come into the World Cup with many expectations of doing well. But with two wins and eight goals in their opening matches they were the first nation to qualify for the knock-out stages.  And despite worries over Hooliganism and discrimination, an estimated one million visiting fans have received a warm welcome. That's no surprise to Victoria Lopyreva who has spent the last three years travelling the world as a FIFA ambassador; she was the first woman to be appointed to the role and first to host a football show on Russian television.

Still Partying?
the World Cup's party atmosphere continues in Russia. It's a stark contrast to the pre-tournament talk from campaign groups like FARE, Football against Racim in Europe, who warned of the potential risk of violence and discrimination towards minority groups. 10 days in Piara Power, the groups executive director tells us what he makes of how things have gone in Russia so far

Royal Ascot:
With the excitement of the World Cup it's easy to forget there's other sport this weekend! Including the final day of Royal Ascot; one of the highlights of the racing calendar. We hear how Her Majesty the Queen has been invited to enter a horse in the prestigious Melbourne Cup by the chairman of the Victoria Racing Club, Amanda Elliot; She's the first woman to hold the position, and the highest profile woman in the administration of the sport. 

Photo: Ballhawk Zack Hample with Alex Rodriguez #13 of the New York Yankees after giving Rodriguez the ball from his 3,000th hit at Yankee Stadium that Hample caught in the crowd.

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