dude was an absolute character
In between those events, he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics; [...] toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt; courted, married, and became separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts; saved a woman from drowning; accidentally shot a friend through the hand; and was bitten by a lion."
the wikipedia just RANDOMLY DROPPED that he was bitten by a LION with no context?!?
While in spring training with the Millers, Waddell helped save the city of Hickman, Kentucky, from a devastating flood in the spring of 1912.[15] Catching pneumonia, he lost much of the vitality that had sustained him, and a second flood in Hickman and another ensuing case of pneumonia in 1913 took the rest
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Grandpa: I don’t have autism wtf are you talking about
Also Grandpa: I’ve meticulously organized my workshop and have a massive array of jars with lids fastened to the bottom side of my shelves; they are organized, in order, according to type, outer diameter, inner diameter, and finally, metallurgy.
They'll say this and then not remember that dude who cataloged like a thousand types of fern or some shit in his life.
Highly recommended podcast episode about it.
he played for 13 years, with the Louisville Colonels, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Chicago Orphans
They had some weird team names back in the day, at least this one isn't a slur though
Sounds like a fuckin banger of an existence
well i am not a baseball fan and am usually very bad at picking "favorites" but this is an easy "favorite basball player" if anyone asks me from now on.
I hope he got a puppy :(
In elementary school we never heard of autism, and this was way before Talwin and Ritalin came on the scene, but we had something called "Mrs. Dooley's Class".
"decidedly different" should've been the euphemism for autistic people years ago. seriously!
strengthened his arm as a child by throwing rocks at birds he encountered while working on his family's land
Turns out that folks with BPD can be geniuses at things to.
there are autistic people in the 20th century, and my Mom, my older sibling and i actually have autism. seriously.
The dollop made an excellent episode on this guy: The Rube
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