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Turning catching baseballs into a career
Zoomin English
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13/05/2025
Zack is crazy about baseball and he's also catching baseballs in major games for living.
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Hey, my name is Zach Hample, and I am a full-time baseball YouTuber, a professional baseball
00:17
nerd, and I have snagged more than 11,000 baseballs at major league stadiums.
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I remember watching baseball on TV when I was really little, seeing fans catching balls
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and going crazy like it was the best thing that ever happened, and I wanted to experience
00:42
that joy as well.
00:47
I make videos, I take people to games, and my whole living comes through baseball.
00:55
I sell merch, I do shout-outs on Cameo, I've written three baseball books, and just anything
01:03
that you can think of in the baseball world that involves other people and going to games,
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I'm the guy.
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Over the years, I've built up a pretty big following in the baseball world as a result of catching
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so many baseballs and also some historic balls.
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And there was one in particular, Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th career hit, which was a home run at
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Yankee Stadium that I got my hands on.
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And so that baseball really took me to the next level as far as getting media attention
01:36
and having people recognize me.
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Two weeks later, I was back at Yankee Stadium for a press conference with A-Rod, and I gave
01:45
him that baseball.
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The Yankees made a tremendous donation to my favorite children's baseball charity, and
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just the whole excitement of that is really worth more to me than having the physical baseball
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or the money from it.
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I have a storage unit filled with thousands of baseballs.
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I put the more valuable baseballs in plastic cubes, but when you have thousands and thousands
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of balls, sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.
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I feel like I have two different lives.
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There's baseball season, Zach, where pretty much all I do is go to games and travel around
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and make videos.
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It makes it hard to make other plans.
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It affects my dating life.
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You know, I can only see my friends at certain points during the year.
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For better or for worse, this passion, obsession, sickness of catching baseballs has completely
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taken over my life.
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