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