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

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.

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