CASPER — The man who wound up with the last home run ball at Yankee Stadium is more than Steve from Colorado — he’s really a state legislator from Wyoming.
Rep. Steve Harshman, a Republican from Casper, said he got Jose Molina’s home run ball Sunday night after it landed near him and his brother.
At the ballpark, Harshman only provided his first name and said he was from Colorado.
Molina’s homer in New York’s 7-3 win over Baltimore came in the final regular-season game at Yankee Stadium.
Harshman got the ball after a skirmish under the netting covering Monument Park in left field. Paul Russo of New York said he caught the ball after it was removed from the netting, but security officers handed the ball to Harshman.
In a story posted Tuesday on the website of Casper TV station KCWY, Harshman said he caught the ball in the netting and then handed it to a security guard.
“So I gave it to him and then he (the security guard) let it down to a guy, another security guy, then a guy jumped up kind of in front of him, grabbed it and they just put him down right away and made him give it back to him,” Harshman said. “That’s how that all happened. That guy never did have it.”
