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Notorious 'ballhawking' baseball fan causes another controversy trying to catch more home runs

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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Zack Hample is without the doubt the most (in)famous baseball fan.

In case you don't know who he is, he's the guy who caught Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th hit that was a home run - and claims to have caught over 11,000 baseballs in his lifetime. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM He has made "ball-hawking" into a legitimate skill, yet has upset plenty of people in the process.

Now, ballpark ushers are fighting back. Zack Hample, a 35-year-old New Yorker holds the two balls he caught in the right-field seats Thursday April 18, 2013, during the Yankees-Diamondbacks game. (AP Photo/Jeremy Engdahl-Johnson) In a recent video posted to his YouTube channel, the 44-year-old wanted to build his baseball-catching resume and get another home run ball, this time at Coors Field, the home of the Colorado Rockies.

But a stadium guard stopped him in his tracks, saying that his ticket was not for the section he was trying to enter. Hample grew visibly upset. "Come on, don’t be that strict, Hample said. "That’s ridiculous.

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