Middle school runner and friends find over $1500 worth of baseball tickets...and return them

The following story proves our youth are not lost. As a matter of fact, the future looks pretty bright from where I sit. All of us look at things through the prism of our own life experiences. Just the subject matter of this post threw me for a loop. Three boys found baseball tickets behind home plate worth more than $1,500. Let that sink in for a moment. Now, I'm from St. Louis. Baseball wasn't born here, but it was perfected here. Forget the face value of the ticket. Do you know how much a ticket behind home plate at a Cardinals game is worth? If you saw one lying next to some gold coins, you'd have to really think about which one was more valuable.

Alex Mastro, Eamon Duffy, and Ben Capra are three young men from Denver who found a stack of Colorado Rockies tickets as they walked home. Instead of trying to keep the tickets for themselves or sell them, they launched a full-out search to locate the rightful owner. They even contacted the local NBC affiliate to help them. Watch the 9News story below (email subscribers click here). Kudos to the parents, coaches, teachers and other adults who are in these kids' lives. You are definitely leading them down the right path. Keep up the good work. Until next time...

Be a Good Sport!

-Sol