A fan is lowered upside down by his friends to retrieve a ball. Until 'Reuben's Rule' was born, spectators risked being arrested for keeping a foul ball.
In 1998, the Philadelphia Phillies named 87-year old Robert Cotter 'Fan of the Century' and presented him with an autographed baseball of the entire team.
It wasn’t that Cotter stood out as the club’s mo…