The theft occurred at Minute Maid Park this past Thursday, as the visiting Diamondbacks played the Astros.
The TV clip (below) includes brief commentary from DBacks announcers Daron Sutton and Mark Grace, who were audibly amazed at the woman’s greed. According to several message board posts written by people who say they were at the game, Sutton and Grace later both autographed another ball and gave it to the little girl.
Another commenter said that people in that section booed the woman for a full five minutes.
That annoyed me so much I looked it up:
http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/06/15/herm-edewards-blasts-woman-who-stole-baseball-from-little-girl-you-cant-be-the-bully-anymore/