"Give the ball to a kid!" Yeah, no.

Call me stingy or rude. But if I catch a ball, I'm keeping it. If there isn't a child around who was actively pursuing the ball, I will not just give up the ball I snagged. 

I cannot stand when people say "Give it to a child!" to any person who gets a ball. Sure, if they wrestle it away or jump in front of a kid to get a ball, they should be booed for it. But if a person gets the ball and isn't around a kid who was after it, or didn't snatch it away from one, he should keep it. That ball is now rightfully his. The kids can understand "Hey, that man caught the ball, and I didn't. Guess I'll try again." BECAUSE KIDS DON'T CARE THAT MUCH. I have never missed a foul ball and been so upset about it that it warrants forcing someone to give it to me. I have always understood that if you get the ball, you can keep it. 

Where did this "give it to a kid" thing start? Suppose the person who catches it has a child at home who would like a ball? Why do we have to harass people into giving the ball away? It's such a wonderful souvenir, don't take that from them!

Please. Don't boo the foul ball catchers into giving away a ball. Let them have it. But by all means, boo the ones who push children out of the way to get the ball. Those people suck.