October 2024. Saturday mid-morning I got a call from a woman whose daughter just lost her engagement ring on a baseball field. Turns out the woman (mom) was with her daughter and son practicing his baseball skills. Mom had told her daughter “Don’t take off your engagement ring and put it in a pants pocket you will lose it” – mom knows best!
Well, the daughter didn’t take that advice and lost her ring while practicing with her brother somewhere on the baseball field. They had been raking the red clay since she had lost the ring with no luck. When I arrived, the mother greeted me and pointed out where her daughter was on the ballfield (mostly out on the right field catching fly balls but also ran the bases a few times). Figuring the ring had only been lost a few hours it would be right on the surface, so I covered the right outfield in about 45 minutes looking for a high signal indication something on the surface with no luck. I then moved onto the infield bases and the red clay. They were still raking the red clay, so I started to run a pattern around the bases starting at home plate going around the based the first time then moving out about 2 feet and proceeding to detect around the bases a second time.
As I passed 2nd base on the 2nd run, I got a very strong hit. When the coil of my metal detector passed over the signal up popped the ring from the red clay. The sun was out and the sunlight hit the diamond, and it just lit up and sparkled. I picked it up and said to the mother and daughter “anyone looking for a diamond engagement ring?” Both Mother and daughter started to scream, and shout followed by a river of tears as they said they thought the ring was gone forever. They wanted to give me a reward but figuring it was so close to Thanksgiving I refused and told them it would be great if they donate the reward to a local food bank which the mother texted me later in the day and said they did.
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