This article was originally published on September 19, 2023.
The odds of catching a foul ball at a baseball game are slim to none – 1 in 835 to be exact, according to Foul Ballz. Don’t tell that to Alice Roth, who in 1957, was struck by not one but two foul balls during the same at-bat at a Philadelphia Phillies game. To this day, that story remains a key part of the Roth’s family history and it starts well before that occurrence.
Alice grew up in England but at the age of 17, she moved to the United States to care for her sister.