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A Royals fan has \u201cfiled a suit\u201d against the team, \u201cseeking ownership\u201d of the 3,000th home run baseball hit at Kauffman Stadium in May — a ball he claims he retrieved but was \u201ctaken from him,\u201d according to Monty Davis of the K.C. STAR. The lawsuit alleges the ball — hit by Royals SS Bobby Witt Jr. into a left field water fountain — was retrieved by Michael Liberty Jr. \u201cwithout entering the fountain.\u201d However, the lawsuit alleges Liberty \u201chad the ball taken from him\u201d and he was \u201cescorted out of the stadium by off-duty police officers.\u201d Liberty values the ball at \u201cmore than $30,000.\u201d Liberty alleges that he \u201cleaned over a fence without leaving the ground and scooped the ball into his hat without touching the water.\u201d Kauffman Stadium\u2019s policy states that \u201cpeople who enter a fountain will be immediately arrested, \u2018transported to the police station downtown and charged to the fullest extent of the law.\u2019\u201d The Royals \u201cdeclined to comment on pending litigation\u201d (K.C. STAR, 9\/28<\/i><\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sportsbusinessjournal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Royals fan has \u201cfiled a suit\u201d against the team, \u201cseeking ownership\u201d of the 3,000th home run baseball hit at Kauffman Stadium in May — a ball he claims he retrieved but was \u201ctaken from him,\u201d according to Monty Davis of the K.C. STAR. The lawsuit alleges the ball — hit by Royals SS Bobby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[40695,25866],"class_list":["post-2058459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty","tag-legal","tag-mlb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}