O/T-Amazing Stat of Mordecai Brown

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Originally Posted by frankbmd

If you do, I'll see that you are banned.

Yes sir!

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Fact: Clarence Blethen injured himself with his own false teeth.



In 1923, Clarence Blethen was a rookie pitcher for the Red Sox; he also happened to wear false teeth. When he was pitching, Clarence thought that he would look meaner if he took his teeth out, which he would place in his back pocket.

Running the bases one day, Clarence forgot about his false teeth in his pocket. As he he went to steal second, his teeth clamped down, thus making Clarence Blethen the only man to be injured by biting himself in the butt.

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Fact: Jack McCarthy threw out three runners at home plate in the same inning.



While playing for the Cubs in 1905, outfielder Jack McCarthy was possibly a little angry with his team's inabilty to get anyone out. So McCarthy decided to take matters into his own hands.

He threw out not one, not two but three runners trying to score. It is such an amazing feat that nobody has come close to matching it in the 108 years since, and unless the outs per inning expand to four, no one will ever have a shot at eclipsing him.