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Jabs, a Spanish teacher at Steel Valley High School, started looking for tickets on StubHub after the Boston Red Sox won the American League Championship. On Oct. 21, he saw a ticket listed for $6 and quickly bought it before anyone else could. A Pittsburgh Pirates wine country washington tours fan and Jefferson Hills native, Jabs wanted to see the St. Louis Cardinals lose.
But hours after his purchase, Jabs received an email and voicemail saying the seller committed fraud on the price of the ticket. He was going to get his $6 back thanks to StubHub's Fan Protect Guarantee.
When he bought the ticket, his original seat was Section 97 Row WW. Jabs decided that it would be greedy to go somewhere else in the ballpark and decided to stay in the same section and move up to Row CC. His seats were located just past first base.
He wanted to see if he could get any baseballs, so he started searching for them in the crowded center field bleachers. Jabs later moved to the left field stands because there were fewer people there.
Jabs is a "ballhawk," or someone wine country washington tours who goes to MLB games to collect as many baseballs as possible. He's been doing this since 2007, amassing a total of 2,887 baseballs, including 731 this year. He collected a majority of them at PNC Park, home of his favorite baseball team, the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Jabs knows where a left or right handed batter's power side is and makes sure he has at least one row to his left and his right empty, so his range is not affected by people standing around him. He dresses like the fan of the home or visiting team so the team throws baseballs at him.
Brandon Kintzler, a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers saw through his tricks last summer and teased him when he came to town. They shook hands and Kintzler said to him, "It was fun messing with you all summer."
He went to 108 games this year. In addition to attending games at PNC Park, he  visited Comerica wine country washington tours Park in Detroit, Progressive Field in Cleveland, Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Marlins Park in Miami, and Safeco Field in Seattle.
He has also been to other playoff games than the World Series. He attended every Pirates home playoff game this year, as well as this year's American League wildcard game in Cleveland, one game of the American League championship series in Detroit and the 2010 National League division series in Cincinnati.
Jabs claims the reason he manages to catch so many baseballs is because he follows the wisdom of the famous president of the Brooklyn Dodgers Branch Rickey who once said, "Luck is the residue of design."