johnk5150 wrote:UtahRatt wrote:johnk5150 wrote:And the idiot bandwagon fan threw the HR back.
You know I'm mostly kidding while making fun of the CUBS but that is one tradition I find fucking stupid on a inbreeding level.
Or how about that funny shit the other week where they caught a HR ball and the dad switched it with one they brought in a bag then had their child throw that one back........Fucking retards.
I have never been proud of that tradition"
It's worse then the Braves chant......I know a few teams use/stole it but the Braves are the worst, it drives me nuts when the chant comes up.
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Old facts....Did you know a player once stole 1st base from 2nd base? Shortly after his death they made it a rule that you can't go back. So he's the only one to ever have pulled it off. Brilliant idea tho.
The man was Herman “Germany” Schaefer, who also had other nicknames such as “Dutch” and “The Prince”. Schaefer was a notorious prankster in baseball. One of his more memorable antics was to steal first base from second and will be the only one since the rules changed.
According to Davy Jones him and Schaefer with the Washington Senators pulled the stunt against Cleveland around 1908.
"So now we had men on second and third. Well, on the next pitch Schaefer yelled, ‘Let’s try it again!’ And with a blood-curdling shout he took off like a wild Indian back to first base, and dove in headfirst in a cloud of dust. He figured the catcher might throw to first — since he evidently wouldn’t throw to second — and then I would come home same as before. But nothing happened. Nothing at all. Everybody just stood there and watched Schaefer, with their mouths open, not knowing what the devil was going on.
The umpires were just as confused as everybody else. However, it turned out that at that time there wasn’t any rule against a guy going from second back to first, if that’s the way he wanted to play baseball, so they had to let it stand. So there we were, back where we started, with Schaefer on first and me on third. And on the next pitch, darned if he didn’t let out another war whoop and take off again for second base. By this time the Cleveland catcher evidently had enough, because he finally threw to second to get Schaefer, and when he did I took off for home and both of us were safe."
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... om-second/
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There Once was a Major League Baseball Player That was Traded for Himself.
That player was Harry Chiti. Chiti was a catcher who played in the major leagues from 1950-1962, taking two years off in that span to fight in the Korean War.
1962 Chiti was traded from the Indians to the New York Mets, who were an expansion club that year. Chiti was acquired for a “player to be named later”. After putting up abysmal numbers in 15 games with the Mets, the Mets traded him back to the Indians as the “player to be named later”, officially making him the only MLB player ever to be traded for himself.....
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... r-himself/
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There Once was a 17 Year Old Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Back to Back.
The woman was Virnett Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell, one of the first female professional baseball players in history. After the previously scheduled exhibition game was rained out, on April 2, 1931, Mitchell got her chance in front of 4,000 spectators, though few saw her as anything but a side-show.
The first batter she faced was none other than the Sultan of Swat himself, Babe Ruth. The first pitch she threw him was high for a ball. The next two, though, Ruth swung and missed at. She then threw a sinker low and away that caught the edge of the strike-zone, which he took for strike three. He reportedly had a few choice words for the umpire while walking away that were “not meant for a lady’s ears”, giving his thoughts on the pitch being called a strike.
Next up was “Iron Horse” Lou Gehrig. She didn’t mess around with him, throwing him three consecutive sinkers, with him swinging and missing at every one. The next batter, Tony Lazzari, fared better, though he didn’t manage a hit. Instead, Mitchell ended up walking him, at which point she was pulled from the game. The Yankees would go on to win 14-4.
After the game, Ruth stated, “I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”
Apparently Commissioner Landis felt the same way. Within a few days, he officially voided her contract and banned her from Major and Minor league baseball, stating that baseball was “too strenuous” for women to play (though “The Queen of Baseball”, Lizzie “Spike” Murphy, should have given him the notion that this wasn’t true with her 17 year illustrious baseball career; more on her in the Bonus Facts below). Despite this individual banning, Major League Baseball wouldn’t officially ban women until June of 1952, a ban that stood for 40 years, until it was repealed when the Chicago White Sox drafted Carey Schueler in the 43 round of the draft for the 1993 season.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... k-to-back/
" and just because he can hit 400' in batting practice? He's 29 and hasn't played organized ball in over a decade. Met fans on social media are having a good to annoying time with this. Good as in mocking him. Yes, we are tired of "Tebow I made one throw during the Bush Administration." 
