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Old 06-27-2009, 11:04 PM
BillyCoxDodgers3B BillyCoxDodgers3B is offline
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4. famous for something notable that has nothing, necessarily, to do with Baseball.

The other questions all have straightforward answers (some of which have already been discussed in the past). I haven't seen this category come up, though, so here are a few to get us going:

1. Cy Malis became a bit actor in Hollywood. After that, he founded Narcotics Anonymous.

2. Jophery Brown became a Hollywood stuntman

3. Both Ethan Allen and Duster Mails invented baseball-related games

4. Jim Bouton invented Big League Chew

5. Sid Farrar and Ed Wineapple both became Broadway promotors

6. Joe Cascarella raced thoroughbred horses

7. Johnny Logan helped build the Alaska Pipeline

8. Ralph Schwamb killed a man in a botched robbery scheme, going on to become the most successful prison ballplayer of all time

9. Art Shires and Mike Kelly (of the 1926 Phillies) are also rumored to have committed murder

10. Harry Mink O'Neill died at the battle of Iwo Jima

11. Bob Neighbors disappeared in Korea during a failed bombing mission

12. Herman Hill was eaten by a shark (not confirmed)

13. Billy Sunday is pretty obvious, as are Bill Sharman, George Halas, Jim Thorpe, Ace Parker, Greasy Neale, etc.

14. Byron McLaughlin is avoiding extradition in France after making millions in a counterfeit shoe ring

This list never ends. These stories are even more fascinating than the game itself!

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