A-Rod hits 600 and gets his ball back

There was no mad scramble for Alex Rodriguez's history-making home run ball Wednesday at the Stadium. There was only security guard Frankie Babilonia. The 23-year-old from the lower East Side calmly picked the ball off the netting over Monument Park and gave it to security supervisor Fidel Gonzales, who in turn handed it to Mark Kapalas and Eddie Fastook, executive directors of team security, who turned it over to clubhouse manager Rob Cuccuzza, who presented it to a Major League Baseball authenticator. He put a hologram foil on the ball to mark it out as the authentic MLB 600 ball.

A-Rod ended up with it and he gave Babilonia an autographed bat commemorating the occasion.

Had the guard kept the ball, he might have come up with considerably more. In January, the ball a fan caught for A-Rod's 500th homer was auctioned for $103,579.

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