Wrigley Field - Can You Still Throw an Opposing Home Run Ball Back?

Factual Questions
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Signage around the bleachers at Wrigley Field seemed to suggest that throwing something onto the field would get you escorted out by security. However, a long-beloved tradition is to throw an opposing team’s home run ball back onto the field.

Is this still allowed to go on, or have the Cubs cracked down on this?

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[QUOTE=HeyHomie]
Signage around the bleachers at Wrigley Field seemed to suggest that throwing something onto the field would get you escorted out by security. However, a long-beloved tradition is to throw an opposing team’s home run ball back onto the field.

Is this still allowed to go on, or have the Cubs cracked down on this?
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Not as of two weeks ago. If you don’t you’ll get shouted at until you do it. Throw it back, throw it back!

ETA- This is undestood to be a polite toss. If you were to say chuck it as hard as you could at the back of Ken Griffy Jr’s head you might be in for a bit of trouble as awesome as that might be.

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
ETA- This is undestood to be a polite toss. If you were to say chuck it as hard as you could at the back of Ken Griffy Jr’s head you might be in for a bit of trouble as awesome as that might be.
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That would be a pretty awesome toss if as a Cubs fan at Wrigley you threw an opposing home run ball and hit Ken Griffey Jr. , at least assuming you threw it in the half inning in which it was hit and threw from near where it was caught. I bet if you did that they’d not only not kick you out, they’d probably ask if you can hit as well as you can throw and start making tryout arrangements.

I mean, in the easiest throw in that scenario would be nailing him from the bleachers as he’s rounding second, right?

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I wonder what would’ve happened had Bonds hit the HR record in Wrigley? Would the ball be thrown back?

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[QUOTE=HubZilla]
I wonder what would’ve happened had Bonds hit the HR record in Wrigley? Would the ball be thrown back?
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Maybe a hand greanade?

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[QUOTE=HubZilla]
I wonder what would’ve happened had Bonds hit the HR record in Wrigley? Would the ball be thrown back?
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Depends on the fan coming up with the ball, but if you did that, man, you’d be a legend. Carte blanche at Harry Caray’s, free beer at the Cubbie Bear for life, a piggy back ride from Mongo McMichael, the world would be your oyster. You’d be the anti Bartman…

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Happened once or twice today. Everybody was knocking 'em out of the park.

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[QUOTE=HubZilla]
I wonder what would’ve happened had Bonds hit the HR record in Wrigley? Would the ball be thrown back?
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I’ve heard stories of fans bringing “dummy” balls to the ballpark to throw back. Probably something along those lines.