Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 21, 2009
Reptile Story

David Dellucci had reporters going with the story of his thumb injury:

Dellucci, who will miss at least the first three games of the Cactus League season, told reporters Saturday morning that he suffered a cut left thumb when an alligator bit him while he was saving a boy while fishing near his home in Baton Rouge, La.

He hooked two of the three reporters gathered around him hook, line and sinker before coming clean.

Dellucci said he smashed his thumb while trying to close the tailgate of his trailer on Feb. 1. He called the Indians with news about the mishap right after it happened and reported to camp early to get it checked out.

As reported in an earlier post, Dellucci needed three stitches to close the cut. Then he needed surgery on the thumb to reclose the cut properly and reattach the nail to the nail bed.

If a gator was that close, he would have gotten more than the thumb. :-)


Posted by David Pinto at 05:41 PM | Injuries | TrackBack (0)
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Sounds like a job for Jose Guillen!

Posted by: Devon Young at February 21, 2009 06:26 PM
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