Anne Kenyon was born July 1, 1920, the similar day the nice Walter Johnson pitched a no-hitter towards the Boston Pink Sox at Fenway Park.

Nearly NINETY TWO years later, Kenyon added a baseball spotlight of her own.

The grandmother of 10 and nice grandmother of 15 snagged a nasty ball at a up to date San Jose Giants game, placing with a top popup at the same time as her much less brave members of the family scurried for cover.

Kenyon was sitting basically admission seats quite up the first-base line on June 15 at San Jose Municipal Stadium whilst ...A FAR OFF well, permit's let flip it over to her for the play by play:

"I see this foul ball going up within the air and that i thought, 'Oh, my goodness, this factor goes to come back proper down on my head.' So I type of moved over only a notch, a few inches to my left.

"I have no idea no matter what possessed me, however I positioned my arm out, routinely. And earlier than you already know it I regarded and the ball fell proper in my hand. I stuck the ball.

"And that was it."

The ball took a prime carom off the seats first, an overly fortunate leap. "ANOTHER WAY it could have overwhelmed her," daughter Anne Marie Barletta said.

The unique foul off the bat of the Modesto Nuts batter had soared so prime that the seven different members of the family in attendance ducked. "ONCE WE got here up from cover, my mother had this ridiculous smile on her face," Barletta. "AND SHE OR HE says, 'I stuck the ball!'''

The fifth-inning shielding gem made Kenyon a celeb

by the time she left the park. While she was being escorted down the stadium stairs, different enthusiasts stored asking, "Are you the girl who stuck the ball?"

"And she was beaming. 'Yes, I am,'" Barletta stated. "It was priceless."

Kenyon endured her display and inform again on the Atria Senior Dwelling neighborhood in Willow Glen, the place she has lived for the previous six years. She introduced the ball down for breakfast. Then introduced it out once more at dinner.

Kenyon, turns NINETY TWO on Sunday — making her the close to an identical of 2 Jamie Moyers. She's been attempting onerous to make a late-life conversion to being a Giants fan, however the East Coast local nonetheless prefers her Big apple Yankees.

"The simplest factor that may have made this better," Barletta said, "is that if it had come off of Derek Jeter's bat."