Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 02, 2007
You Want Fries with That?

Pillage Idiot remembers a hidden ball trick involving a potato:

Twenty years ago this past Friday, Dave Bresnahan, a minor-league catcher, pulled off what's considered one of the top baseball pranks ever. He took a potato, sculpted it to look like a baseball, and deliberately threw it over the head of the third baseman in an effort to pick a runner off third. When the runner ran home, Bresnahan was waiting with the real ball. Everyone thought it was funny, but he was fined by the manager and released by the team, dropped like a (dare I say it?) hot potato.

He stayed within the rules, but broken the spirit of those same rules. Good to see his team took the appropriate action against him.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:20 AM | History | TrackBack (0)
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Of course, the following year, his team honored him with "Dave Bresnahan Day" and retired his uniform number:

http://www.baseballreliquary.org/Bresnahan.htm

I guess it was probably worth getting released...

Posted by: Geoff Young at September 2, 2007 11:30 AM

that's the coolest thing i've ever heard in my life.

Posted by: amos at September 2, 2007 12:07 PM
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