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S GrossWaddell is great.
I remember reading in an old SABR article (and I mean old, back in the Rucker/Thorne early '80's days) that suggested that Waddell had Down's syndrome. It pointed to some Mongoloid features (there's your politically incorrect statement of the day); the fact he was easily distracted by opposing players showing him five & dime trinkets; famous for chasing fire trucks with other neighborhood childern; dying relatively early of pneumonia. Maybe someone out there can come up with the article. Not that I fully accept the theory, but it was interesting ..... and I'm just happy I can remeber something from 25 years ago ....