Zack è riuscito a trasformare la sua passione per le palle da baseball in un lavoro a tempo pieno.
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00:00ZAC HAMPEL
00:10Hey, my name is Zach Hample
00:12and I am a full-time baseball YouTuber,
00:15a professional baseball nerd
00:17and I have snagged more than 11,000 baseballs
00:21at Major League Stadiums.
00:30I remember watching baseball on TV when I was really little,
00:36seeing fans catching balls and going crazy
00:39like it was the best thing that ever happened
00:41and I wanted to experience that joy as well.
00:47I make videos, I take people to games
00:50and my whole living comes through baseball.
00:55I sell merch, I do shout-outs on Cameo,
00:59I've written three baseball books
01:01and just anything that you can think of in the baseball world
01:04that involves other people and going to games,
01:07I'm the guy.
01:11Over the years I've built up a pretty big following
01:14in the baseball world as a result of catching so many baseballs
01:19and also some historic balls
01:21and there was one in particular,
01:23Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th career hit
01:26which was a home run at Yankee Stadium
01:28that I got my hands on
01:30and so that baseball really took me to the next level
01:34as far as getting media attention
01:36and having people recognize me.
01:40Two weeks later I was back at Yankee Stadium
01:42for a press conference with A-Rod
01:44and I gave him that baseball.
01:46The Yankees made a tremendous donation
01:48to my favorite children's baseball charity
01:50and just the whole excitement of that
01:54is really worth more to me
01:56than having the physical baseball or the money from it.
02:04I have a storage unit filled with thousands of baseballs.
02:08I put the more valuable baseballs in plastic cubes
02:11but, you know, when you have thousands and thousands of balls
02:15sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.
02:19I feel like I have two different lives.
02:21There's baseball season, Zach,
02:24where pretty much all I do is go to games
02:26and travel around and make videos.
02:28It makes it hard to make other plans.
02:31It affects my dating life.
02:33You know, I can only see my friends
02:35at certain points during the year.
02:38For better or for worse,
02:40this passion, obsession, sickness
02:44of catching baseballs has completely taken over my life.