A Few of the Ball People Who Made the Cut - The Everything Guide to the U.S. Open -- New York Magazine

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Published Aug 19, 2007

Clockwise from top left: Hannah Hinchcliffe, 14; Justin Perkins, 16; Eric Hirschbein-Bodner, 15; Mark Menendez, 17

(Photo: Brian Finke)

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Tryouts were held earlier this summer for the right to be one of the 250 ball people at the U.S. Open. Most were teenagers, though there was one 32-year-old computer consultant who has worked at the tournament every single summer since 1989, when he was a high-school sophomore. Those pictured here also made the cut.