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Giants fan swaps home run ball for Series tickets

The Sports Xchange

October 19, 2014 at 3:09 am.

A man who gave back the home run ball hit by Travis Ishikawa that sent the San Francisco Giants to the World Series received something special in return:

Tickets to Game 3 of the World Series in San Francisco against the Kansas City Royals.

Frank Burke, the owner of a transmission repair business and a lifelong Giants fan, said he wanted Ishikawa, who hit the home run, to have the ball.

“I believe in karma,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “I didn’t hit that ball … if anybody’s going to have that ball in their game room or trophy case, it’s going to be the guy who hit it.”

Burke handed the ball over to Ishakawa in the clubhouse area after the game and received a signed bat. Asked by the team whether he wanted anything else, Burke requested World Series tickets. The Giants didn’t think that was possible.

The next day, though, the Giants called and said they had four tickets for Game 3. Burke wants to take a friend, Greg Leutza, who is battling cancer.

The tickets and memorabilia are nice, Burke said, but that’s not what’s most important.

“Just the memory for me and my buddy, that’s priceless,” he said. “That meant more to me than anything else will.”

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