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♪ ♪ take me out to the ball game take me out to the crowd ♪ i can go for peanuts and cracker jacks right about now. finally this half hour, baseball's major leagues have today off after last night's all-star game. >> the american league defeated the national league, 3-0, but actually this story has nothing to do with the game itself. >> but it is about an all-star of sorts. he truly is the man when it comes to getting his hands on balls. baseballs, that is. abc's -- i tried so hard to get through it. >> reporter: it's a thrill no diehard baseball fan ever outgrows. snagging a ball at a...

Do you think parents can really take on that responsibility of making sure their kids do better in school? are they equipped? >> listen, we are not talking dark dash i'm not expecting these kids to write the magna cart tafplt abc's, 1, 2, 3's, i think every parent can just about do that. we have class force parents. we have after school problems if kids are having problems. we have tutoring problems, we have everything you'd ever ask for except for parents that are engaged and involved. if a parent doesn't care if a child shows up for school, if they show up they don't care if they are asleep ...

Is it what we think it is? >> i used to work there at abc, there was always a startling news investigation. cell phones will give you cancer, so will teflon pants this scaremongering is constant and earlier this year the scare was pink slime. >> with 70% of the super market ground beef containing pink slime, how will know what's in your beef? >> is there something in there called pink slime? sounds awful. then as abc news explained, people are upset about that. >> parents, schools, state officials, insisting the government do something about pink slime. >> they're insisting because abc news ju...

About his candidacy. we are back to tied. we have gone through all, and essentially a tied race, in our polling, other polling. duke it out over the economy the next two weeks. >> it is impossible to overstate the importance of ohio over the next two weeks. >> that is "the" state both campaigns have circled. they will return there over and over again over the next two weeks. if you are mitt romney it is almost impossible to chart a victory that doesn't include ohio. for the obama campaign, they know that romney can't win without it. they can prevent the romney victory winning there. that is th...

Artificial insemination after its mom had five failed pregnancies. preliminary findings on the cause of death are expected today. but very, very sad and knew this was the introductory period where the bonding period so they didn't even announce the gender of the panda. >> everyone always gets excited when a new panda cub is born, and it is very sad because people had been so excited the last day or two. >> especially an endangered species. >> exactly. well, to politics now, mitt romney huddled with his top advisers this weekend, preparing for next month's debate. >> abc's washington editor r...