1. Bill Veeck’s Entire Career bill-veeck-hall-of-fame
Bill Veeck was, by far, the most crazy owner in the history of baseball, and was better than anybody at bringing people out to the stadium. Among his pranks, he brought midgets in as a gimmick, and often performed marriages on the field. He gave rewards of live animals, and once presented a 200-pound slab of ice, which presumably the recipient had a need for. He also once presented his team manager a giant birthday cake only, instead of the normal gorgeous woman you would anticipate to jump out, a new player made an appearance instead. Thankfully, said new player was not wearing a gorgeous bikini.
2. Manager In Disguise
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Bobby Valentine has been engaged in baseball for a long time, and has always been a touch weird, but during one game, whie he was manager of the New York Mets, he pushed it to the next level. It began with him being ejected from a game for fighting with an umpire, which is a very typical event in baseball. However, Valentine was not happy sitting this game out, and determined that he still needed to be there to keep things running correctly. While a sensible manager may have attempted to coach things via a phone, or possibly some other smart approach, he had other plans. Valentine placed o
3. Rain Delay In A Domed Stadium domed-stadium
It doesn’t make logical that you should have a rain delay at a stadium with a retractable dome, but it really ended up occurring in Toronto, in the midst of a Blue Jays game, back in 1989. The stadium administration was not prepared for the weather, anticipating a simple light rain, and so they didn’t shut the roof of the stadium.
Then the drizzle turned into a heavy rain, and they were left with a delayed game and a lot of irate spectators who were not exactly anticipating such an entirely preventable mishap. It turns out that the dome cannot shut properly if there are severe winds, which happens to be a typical phenomenon during storms. Perhaps they should have closed it anyhow, given they anticipated rain and everything, but that probably would have been too easy.
4. Playing A Useless Game Through Serious Injury ted-broken-elbow
It’s one thing to play despite injury during a crucial game, but how about when it genuinely could not matter less whether you participated or not? Such was the situation during an all-star game played by Red Sox icon Ted Williams. Being an all-star game, the result, and who contributed to it, didn’t matter in the least. Yet Williams, despite fracturing his left elbow making a catch early on in the game, nonetheless kept playing for seven innings later. Not only that but, even after he fractured his elbow, he made a key catch, and hit a single that put his side ahead.