ALCS NOTEBOOK : WHEREABOUTS OF BALL THAT MADE 12-YEAR-OLD FAMOUS IS UNCLEAR.Young Jeff Maier may be wise to milk his sudden fame for all its worth. After all, the 12-year-old Yankees fan didn't hold on to the baseball that made him famous and it appears that a Connecticut man who reportedly ended up with the souvenir may cash in with it. However, the whereabouts of the ball remained unclear Thursday night as Maier stayed in the center of the ruckus he created by sweeping Derek Jeter's outfield fly into the stands in the eighth inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. of New York's victory over the Baltimore Orioles This article is about the contemporary American major league baseball team. For other uses, see Baltimore Oriole (disambiguation). The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. in Game 1 of the AL championship series Wednesday night. While Maier was quickly on his way to obtaining major-league media status, the whereabouts of the home run ball that caromed of the kid's glove was still unknown. After the game, Marc Jarvis, 25, told the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. he had the ball and had no plans to give it back to Maier. In fact, the Easton, Conn., native said he's seriously considering putting it up for sale. ``If I was ever in a position to be greedy, I am now. I want to see what I can get,'' Jarvis told the newspaper. ``I've got the ball, and it means a lot. I'm not giving it back.'' But whether Jarvis was still in possession of the ball on Thursday was a mystery. His father, inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. with phone calls to his home and business from media and angry fans who demanded the return of the ball, insisted his son only held the ball for seconds before losing it to someone else. In an interview with Bridgeport radio station WICC-AM, John Jarvis John Jarvis is a notable karateka from New Zealand. He is Shihan, 5th Dan. His first instructor was Steve Arneil in 1967. Later, John Jarvis was a personal representative of Masutatsu Oyama and Kyokushinkai chief instructor in New Zealand. Jr. estimated his son had the ball for eight seconds, while he and a group of friends displayed it for TV cameras. Marc Jarvis could not be reached Thursday. His family said he was on his way to Virginia Tech, his alma mater ma·ter n. Chiefly British Mother. [Latin m  ter; see m , to attend a football game this weekend. His father did not return several messages left at his home and work numbers.
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