00:03I'm Steve Hartman with ABC News.
00:06I am looking to find a ball boy who would be miked up for the tryouts.
00:09I go, you got your man.
00:11Oh my gosh.
00:12You got your man.
00:14Of course.
00:15Al, I went from number 530 to number 1.
00:18Oh, yeah.
00:19Because I was on the news.
00:21You were the first one?
00:21I was the first one to do the tryout because I was on the news.
00:24Sweet.
00:25And I give you Steve Hartman, ABC News, 1992, featuring a 17-year-old Steve Mani.
00:32Oh, this history.
00:34Steve Mani told me how tough can it be to pick up a tennis ball.
00:37And for that, they give you just about the best seat in the house.
00:39Steve Mani.
00:40It's Mani Hartman.
00:41It's Mani.
00:42When they showed up for the ball boy tryouts, like Steve says, it's not like you need to know the
00:46quadratic formula.
00:47I'll say one more thing and then I'll keep playing it.
00:49Listen to my New York accent, how thick it is.
00:51And you don't.
00:52Is that right?
00:53Why?
00:54It can go either way.
00:55Some girl's showing me up, by the way.
00:57I got this video.
00:59I'm going to post the video, too, on your socials or something.
01:01I was never very shocked.
01:04Here you go.
01:05See, we chose Steve because he was a little cocky about this tryout.
01:08And from what we hear, it's a little more demanding than it looks on television.
01:12Now back to Steve.
01:13I know you're curious.
01:14That's mine?
01:17Well, that's his half of the court.
01:18All of a sudden, this didn't seem so easy anymore.
01:21Oh, to this side of the net and that side of the net.
01:23Steve wasn't scoring too well on the ball boy index.
01:26Of course, according to him, it wasn't his fault.
01:28She misled me over here.
01:29Oh, my gosh.
01:32All right, hold on.
01:33It's almost over.
01:33So, wait.
01:34Were you in the top?
01:34Hold on.
01:35He doesn't have a mathematics career to look forward to, either.
01:38Just kidding, Steve.
01:39They told me you actually have a pretty good shot at it.
01:41Here, what do I do with this ball, man?
01:43Go figure.
01:45Steve Hartman, Channel 7 Eyewitness News.
01:48He left the clip in.
01:51He troved you that whole time.
01:53The entire time.
01:53Oh, my gosh.
01:55I've never heard that whole clip.
01:57I have the whole clip somewhere.
01:59I've got to find it.
02:00We'll put it up at the ML Morning Show on our Insta.
02:02The best part of that story was how I was, like, 530 on the tryout,
02:06and then all of a sudden I moved to number one.
02:08I was so nervous.
02:09I did miss a ball.
02:10That was so good.
02:11Yeah.
02:11Good.
02:12There you go.
02:12There's Steve Maney, the ball boy at the US Open.
02:14You were a little cocky.
02:16You were a little cocky.
