00:30I remember watching baseball on TV when I was really little, seeing fans catching balls and going crazy like it was the best thing that ever happened, and I wanted to experience that joy as well.
00:47I make videos, I take people to games, and my whole living comes through baseball.
00:53I sell merch, I do shoutouts on Cameo, I've written three baseball books, and just anything that you can think of in the baseball world that involves other people and going to games, I'm the guy.
01:08Over the years, I've built up a pretty big following in the baseball world as a result of catching so many baseballs and also some historic balls.
01:21And there was one in particular, Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th career hit, which was a home run at Yankee Stadium that I got my hands on.
01:31And so that baseball really took me to the next level as far as getting media attention and having people recognize me.
01:38Two weeks later, I was back at Yankee Stadium for a press conference with A-Rod, and I gave him that baseball.
01:46The Yankees made a tremendous donation to my favorite children's baseball charity.
01:50And just the whole excitement of that is really worth more to me than having the physical baseball or the money from it.
02:03I have a storage unit filled with thousands of baseballs.
02:08I put the more valuable baseballs in plastic cubes, but, you know, when you have thousands and thousands of balls, sometimes it's hard to tell them apart.
02:17I feel like I have two different lives.
02:22There's baseball season, Zach, where pretty much all I do is go to games and 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 at certain points during the year.
02:38For better or for worse, this passion, obsession, sickness of catching baseballs has completely taken over.
