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NEW YORK (AP) — The fan at Yankee Stadium who wound up with the ball that Alex Rodriguez launched for his 3,000th hit is holding on to the prized souvenir. 
  
 New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez watches his home run, his 3,000th career hit, during the first inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday, June 19, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank... (Associated Press) 
  
 New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez leaves the field after the Yankees' baseball game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday, June 19, 2015, in New York. Rodriguez had his 3,000th career hit as the Yankees... (Associated Press) 
  
 In a photo provided by Zack Hample, Zack Hample holds the baseball that New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez hit on a home run for his 3,000th career hit, in the Yankees' baseball game against the Detroit... (Associated Press) 
  
 New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez hits a home run for his 3,000th career hit, during the first inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers Friday, June 19, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin... (Associated Press) 
  
 New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez waves to fans as he leaves the field after the Yankees' baseball game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday, June 19, 2015, in New York. Rodriguez hit his 3,000th career... (Associated Press) 
  
 New York Yankees fans cheer for Alex Rodriguez after a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers on Friday, June 19, 2015, in New York. The Yankees won 7-2. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (Associated Press) 
  
 In a photo provided by Zack Hample, Zack Hample holds the baseball that New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez hit on a home run for his 3,000th career hit, in the Yankees' baseball game against the Detroit... (Associated Press) 
  
 For now, anyway. 
  
 "At first, I was 100 percent adamant about not giving the ball back," Zack Hample told The Associated Press by telephone late Friday night. "Now, I'm thinking about it." 
  
 "I'm not making any definite decisions tonight and probably not tomorrow, either," he said an hour after New York beat Detroit 7-2. "I want to enjoy the moment." 
  
 The 37-year-old Hample has some experience in this area. He describes himself as a pro at catching home run balls, has written books about the art and has snagged — get this — a whopping 8,161 baseballs at stadiums around the country. 
  
 "Got 12 tonight. Got 11 in batting practice and one during the game by some guy," he said, laughing. 
  
 Hample is a New Yorker and a Yankees season-ticket holder. He was in his favorite spot — section 103, row 12, seat 24 — in right field when Rodriguez connected for a solo shot in the first inning. 
  
 Hample raised his Rawlings glove, but the crowd surge pushed him forward. Good fortune was on his side, however. 
  
 "I looked down and the ball was at my feet. It ricocheted, and it was almost touching my shoe," he said. 
  
 Hample snapped up the ball and posted a picture of it on Twitter. Quickly, the Yankees visited him and tried to see what it would take to make a deal. Not an easy negotiation, either. 
  
 A day earlier, Hample tweeted about Rodriguez: "That man deserves favors from no one, least of all a fan." 
  
 After talking to the Yankees, Hample posted that he "told the Yankees I'm keeping it." 
  
 Rodriguez, meanwhile, later mentioned the fan who snared Derek Jeter's home run ball for his 3,000th hit in 2011. That man was all too eager to return it to the former Yankees star. 
  
 "Where's Jeet's guy? That's the guy I needed," Rodriguez said. "I wasn't so lucky." 
  
 In the late innings, it appeared to be a lost cause. Yankees spokesman Jason Zillo said efforts to have the man deal directly with team president Randy Levine didn't work. 
  
 "As far as we're concerned, we have done everything we could to engage this guy in some type of discussion about some type of exchange. He had none of anything we were saying. He wouldn't engage at all," Zillo said. "He is not intending to give it to us." 
  
 "This guy is pretty well-documented. A professional home run catcher," Zillo said. 
  
 Hample has returned balls in the past. He said he gave back the first home runs hit by Mike Trout and Didi Gregorius, free of charge. 
  
 "This is something more special," Hample said. 
  
 But Hample ended up watching the ninth inning with Levine and Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost, and said he's considering what to do. 
  
 "They were so nice, and that made me think about what I want to do," Hample said. "There's no right or wrong in this. We'll just see." ||||| In his Twitter photo, Zack Hample is sitting in a bathtub filled with major league baseballs. He has his own website. He has a Wikipedia page. He has written a book titled "How to Snag Major League Baseballs." 
  
 And now he has the ball from Alex Rodriguez's 3,000th hit. 
  
 "My intention all along imagining this scenario, one in a million, was not to give it back just because the guy who got Jeter's 3,000th hit, a lot of people called him an idiot," Hample said as he received a police escort to the Yankees' executive offices. "A lot of people said that he was a wonderful person and extremely generous. I really think that whatever you want to do with it is your choice. 
  
 "I think that someone like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez who's made half a billion dollars in their career doesn't really need a favor from a normal civilian and a fan like me." 
  
 Asked if he had a price in mind that he would accept in exchange for the ball, Hample said whatever amount Rodriguez offered likely wouldn't be enough to make it worthwhile. 
  
 "He's not going to offer me a million dollars," Hample said. "If he did, I would consider it. It's kind of like, well, I don't like you and I have something you want and you can't have it. I wanted you to not take steroids and be the greatest of all time and you disappointed me. So I still respect A-Rod, he's an amazing player and I think he is pretty fan-friendly, but I have to hang on to this ball right now. 
  
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 "If I want to sell it, he's welcome to come bid on it at auction," he added. "And if I choose to keep it, well, he has the bat that he used, he has the helmet he was wearing, he has the jockstrap that he was wearing." 
  
 Comparing Hample to Christian Lopez, who caught the homer that gave Jeter his 3,000th hit in 2011 and gave it back after the game, A-Rod said, "The thing I was thinking about is, where's Jeet's guy? The guy that caught the ball. That's the guy that I needed here. Where's that guy? I wasn't so lucky." 
  
 Hample, 37, a Yankees season-ticket holder from New York City, said he has caught more than 8,000 major-league baseballs, including batting practice. He said some of his more prized catches were Barry Bonds' 724th career homer, the Mets' final homer at Shea Stadium and Mike Trout's first career homer. 
  
 Hample said he gave that ball to Trout and asked for nothing in return, wanting nothing more than to be the guy who handedit to him personally. He added, "With A-Rod, I don't think he deserves charity or sympathy.'' 
  
 Hample, who was seated in section 103, said the ball was hit right to him. Just as he was about to jump to catch it, he was shoved from behind. He assumed he had lost his chance until he noticed it at his feet. 
  
 Hample, who said he is a baseball writer and also works in his family's bookstore, said he has never sold a single ball that he has caught and often gives them to kids or donates them to raise money for a children's baseball charity. 
  
 "I've always said if I get a ball that would be life-changing money, I would have to keep it and think about it," he said. 
  
 The Yankees met with Hample, who said they offered him memorabilia, the chance to meet A-Rod and publicity on YES Network and other TV stations. He turned them down. 
  
 "Security personnel, led by Eddie Fastook, attempted to engage him in some type of exchange,'' Yankees director of media relations Jason Zillo said. "He declined. Took it a step further, tried to get him directly with Randy Levine or Lonn Trost, he declined again. So as far as we're concerned, we've done everything we could do to engage this guy in some type of discussion about some type of exchange. He wouldn't hear what we were saying.'' 
  
 Zillo later said Hample did talk with Levine and Trost but that no transaction was made. 
  
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 For now, Hample has another ball for his impressive collection. "I couldn't live with myself if I didn't walk out of this stadium with this baseball tonight," he said. "I gotta hang on to it." 
  
 Rodriguez was philosophical about the potential memento. "Maybe years ago that would have been kind of an important thing for me,'' he said. "I think about 2015 and I think about 2009, and for me there is a lot of resemblance there. The memory in my 21-year career by far, nothing that I've done personally, would ever compare to winning the championship in 2009. And I don't have a ball, I don't have a bat, but I do have a memory. And the memory is forever. Kind of the same way I feel about the ball." |||||
Alex Rodriguez can't even avoid drama with souvenir baseballs. A-Rod smacked his 3,000th hit last night, but the fan who caught the home run ball is resisting the Yankees' efforts to have him return it. At least temporarily: "At first, I was 100% adamant about not giving the ball back," Zack Hample tells the AP. "Now, I'm thinking about it." But it sounds like A-Rod will have to be willing to shell out big money, as Hample makes clear in an entertaining quote to Newsday: "He's not going to offer me a million dollars. If he did, I would consider it. It's kind of like, well, I don't like you and I have something you want and you can't have it. I wanted you to not take steroids and be the greatest of all time and you disappointed me. So I still respect A-Rod, he's an amazing player and I think he is pretty fan-friendly, but I have to hang on to this ball right now." Hample says he might eventually put it up for auction. Both stories explain that it's no fluke Hample ended up with the souvenir: He's actually written a book called How to Snag Major League Baseballs. Though he was wearing his glove at the time, the 37-year-old Yankees season-ticket-holder didn't catch the ball. When it cleared the wall, a crowd surged forward to try to grab it, but everybody missed. "I looked down and the ball was at my feet," says Hample. "It was almost touching my shoe."