Florida’s first baseball championship ended with a mystery.
After catching the final out of the Gators’ 6-1 victory against LSU in the College World Series finals on Tuesday night, JJ Schwarz tucked the ball in his glove and tossed both aside for the traditional on-field dog pile.
When he returned to the glove, the ball was gone.
“Whoever took Tom Brady’s jersey took that ball,” Schwarz said.
The search was still on when UF boarded its team bus shortly after midnight outside of TD Ameritrade Park — the Gators’ happy home for the past two weeks.