It was a baseball match at Yankee Stadium that drove the Dragons chief executive Peter Doust to derive some reward from having his balls kicked.

Like all NRL clubs, the Dragons supply four match balls for home games but Doust will have 40 available when his team plays Penrith at WIN Jubilee Oval, Kogarah, on Saturday at 5.30pm.

The genesis of his idea was a baseball match at Yankee Stadium, New York.

''I was sitting in the stands and during the course of play, I saw one baseball hit into the crowd on my left, another to my right, and one which landed very close,'' Doust said. ''It generated such excitement in the fans who got to keep the baseballs, I said to myself, 'I've waited too long. I'm going to do this.'''