Eddie Feigner - the greatest athlete no one ever talks about.
Feigner traveled the country with a four-man team and the basically dominated everyone he faced.
Here he is striking out Willie Mays, Harmon Killebrew, and Willie McCovey
During a game in 1988, Will Clark came in hot at second base.
Ozzie Smith and Jose Oquendo didn’t take kindly to that.
Craziest part about the whole thing?
Ozzie Smith didn’t even get tossed.
Pudge Rodriguez had two choices on his wedding day:
1. Get married in Tulsa where he was playing Double-A ball
2. Fly to Chicago and make his MLB debut with the Rangers
That afternoon, he got married at the ballpark and then got on a plane to Chicago
Eddie Gaedel was the shortest man to ever play baseball at 3’ 7” tall.
His career last one at bat.
Because of it’s scarcity, his autograph sells for more than Babe Ruth’s 👀
Before the Blue Jays’ first game in franchise history, the entire field was covered with snow.
It was so bad that they literally used a Zamboni to clear it out.
But Toronto was so excited to have a baseball team that 44,649 fans still showed up.
Contrary to what most people believe, Steve Bartman did not cause the Cubs to lose Game 6 of the NLCS in ‘03.
Everybody remembers the interference play, but they forget about this error Alex Gonzales made on an absolute candy hop right afterwards.
Pedro drills Gerald Williams and starts a benches-clearing brawl.
The funniest part is the dramatic pause by Williams.
Before charging, he just stops and looks at his wrist for a few seconds with a “no one makes me bleed my own blood” type of look 😂
The Death Row All-Stars were a 12-man team of prisoners that included three rapists, a forger, five thieves and three murderers.
They were told that wins would get them time off their sentences - losing would have consequences.
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Baseball facts you never knew:
• Mike Piazza hit .111 as a college freshman
• Billy Wagner was only 5'5" as a high school senior
• Tim Wakefield started as a 1st baseman at a D2 school
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Prince Fielder had 319 homers throughout his big league career.
Unfortunately it was cut short, otherwise he would’ve had a lot more.
The crazy part?
His dad, Cecil Fielder also had exactly 319 home runs in the big leagues 👀
We’re following back everyone who can answer this correctly.
In 1980, Willie Mays was banned from baseball for doing meet-and-greets and autograph signings at casinos in Atlantic City.
Another legend was banned in 1983 for the same thing, who was the player?