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Its not that fucked up apart from the way eddie died, sports is about entertainment and ig the novelty of midgets wears off when they walk every other at bat.
Yes, the issue though is that being tall isn't necessarily as big of an advantage as being super short with no strike zone is. There have been a few super tall baseball players like Randy Johnson. Johnson is 6'10" and as far as I know, the only pitcher to ever kill a bird during a game. He was a great pitcher and dominating, but not so dominating as to require a rule to be created to prevent that from happening again. In the case of Eddie, he was so short that his strike zone would be only a couple inches wide, meaning that if the pitcher wanted any chance of a strike out, they would need to put it where he could hit it. The main strategy would be to pitch as slowly and softly as possible to try and make him run for the bases, something that he was presumably quite a bit slower at than a typical player.
Exactly a little person can't even hit the ball or run the bases to any effect, where as 6' 7" is like the perfect height for an athlete. Everyone who upvoted this post has brain damage. @@Js-eq7yd
To add a bit onto Gaedel's story: Bob Cain, the Tigers pitcher, found the situation so unbelievable that (per Veeck) he "was laughing so hard that he could barely throw" after the first two pitches. Cain was also the only major leaguer to attend Gaedel's funeral.
Exactly he just moved on so fast. I did some more research and apparently the beating caused a heart attack after he crawled all the way back to his mothers home. Crawled in bed, and died that night. His mother found him the next morning. This is sad asf and just looked over.
the man has created entire lore, a bunch of fictional characters, and hired numerous actors to film this footage, this is an insane amount of work for a fake sport
He was beat to death outside of a bowling alley and then the next day they voided his contract and banned dwarves from playing? Thats some shady as hell shit right there.
Eddie Gaedel's grandnephew nearly joined him in the majors. 6'3" OFer Kyle Gaedele was drafted in the 6th round of the 2011 MLB draft and made it to AA before flaming out. He still plays independent ball
A couple things 1. The most common phenotype of dwarfism results in a relatively normal torso length and short legs. 2. It seems possible to me that a little person could be good enough at baseball that they could contribute in ways besides getting walked. The fastest little people in the world can run 100m in under 15 seconds. Thats definitely slow by mlb standards but not unheard of. Dwarfism has an incidence of 1/25000, so there are around 15000 little people in the united states, including about 2000 men in or near their athletic prime. Extend that to the whole world and you get around 40000 eligible little people. Remember, they dont need to be mlb caliber in their skills, they would just need to be good enough that they arent completely useless on the field-- good enough that the advantages they bring outweigh the deficits in "traditional" baseball performance
I guess with odds like those, it’s really weird that I grew up next to a dwarf. She invited us to a local dwarfism awareness thing and there were plenty of little people there.
it also feels like it would be less ugly and demeaning to hire a little person who was expected to like... play? like, i think the whole thing comes off a lot less freak show if you're like 'look this person has a tiny strike zone but also will bunt sometimes' or whatever
I hear you, but we're talking about the big leagues, so how would a dwarf be good at any aspect of baseball to the level where he'd be serviceable in any other facet than to be walked? Anyone deficient on the basepaths generally makes up for it in power, which enables them to avoid baserunning more. So you get a dwarf who never gets past first now having to run all those bases and it'd have to be at the DH position because you won't find one who wouldn't be a total liability defensively on a MLB team. Like you'd have to have the top superstar athlete dwarf to even think about this working and even then, it's not that inspiring of a proposition.
@bennylevine387 my point is that, if they could consistently get walked, they wouldn't have to be "MLB good" in order to provide net utility to their team with multiple at bats per game as a DH. A 15 second 100m is fairly slow by mlb standards but not out of place, and the disadvantages in speed conferred by short legs would be of lower relevance since baserunning is more about acceleration than top end speed.
@@mikeCD62 Yeah, I'm not even disagreeing. I don't think anyone could wrap their head around all the possibilities. Or if maybe it'd be better just to have one in a pinch-hitting capacity to get that walk under optimal conditions, rather than letting the dwarf run bases or have to slide, which I'm not sure they can do proficiently. And I'd be interested where they're holding dwarf track meets to where you can quote times. Or if they need that first length of distance to get rolling and their base-running wouldn't translate. An interesting thing to ponder though to be sure.
I was very short growing up, I actually made the cities highest level of baseball team. I was on the team for 1 reason; to get walked and steal every base to home. I was one of the fastest guys and my strikezone was so small pitchers rarely struck me out. I played outfield and 2nd base.
on my highschool soccer team my teammate was a dwarf who was extremely fast in a short sprint. we won many games together in which he was the one I was passing to so he could score which he did. was one of our top scorerers aswell as he could dribble and shoot very quickly.
Man us OSRS comunity must be dying cause just a few years ago the top comments would always be pointing out random bits in videos unrelated to runescape
The first little person on the video is a batboy/team assistant for the aguilas de mexicali in the mexican pacific league. Hes a well known legend in Mexico. They call him “Chevale”👏 👏 He made it to @baseballDoesntExist, took his legendary status to another level🚀
@@SBDdauntless Nah, organizations that support them go by titles like: "Little People of America" (LPA). Same as a "Trans person" or "Black person". But I get where you're coming from, I could see a lot of people getting offended at the title, "Big person".
My buddy Mason played little league with me up until we got older and bigger….. but for those few years he was our #3 batter and I was our clean up. He would get walked EVERY TIME. and I was so fat we ran at the same speed 😂 I’ll never forget those legendary times
Aye you just gained a subscriber. MLB need to hire you at this point. You made baseball interesting for me. Never thought that would happen. 😂 this also helps me realize baseball got a lot of rules that need adjusting . The strike zone rule is crazy
4:16 Disco Demolition Night was an idea envisioned by his son and a local Chicago DJ. Bill Veeck approved the idea however. Also, Bill Veeck’s wife conceived the idea that ball players wore shorts instead of pants. It lasted one season and players wore them for a couple of games.
You mean make a rule that specifically gives a disadvantage to players below a certain height? I'm not sure the ada would be much happier with that. It would probably have to be a universal strike zone to make them happier. But I think it's more likely they would get rid of the DH and add stipulations around pinch hitters requiring them to field an inning.
@@The_Taken_Names It's not a disadvantage, they'd still have the smallest possible strike zone compared to larger players with way bigger strike zones.
@@d_mb I think that's the point. The rule wouldn't be discriminatory because it applies to everyone, it just would facilitate that people who cannot fit the strike zone wouldn't be considered skilled enough to play. Same way with the NBA hoop height, MLB base size, size of a baseball, etc. Applies to everyone, regardless of physical ability.
@@djii7837 i think this is right, not a lawyer, but the case against it would be does it apply more to a few than to all the others. like let's say it's a 1ft x 1ft min for the aruguement, if the only people that the minimum applies to, are little people/ dwarfs, then it could still be effectively discriminatory which would still be a litigious issue. a minimum height that the strike zone boundaries can be at might be better than a minimum area of the strikezone, which i think is what y'all are saying now and i'm misreading this. oh well
@@OmniBui There could also be a case raised if someone challenged the ban, that an individual is not “otherwise qualified” to be an MLB player if the only thing that makes them attractive to an MLB team is the fact that they are so short they could likely walk an insanely high amount of the time. The ability to actually hit, field, and throw would likely be considered essential functions of the job. Even if that’s not the case there would also be a case from a safety standpoint although I think that would be even more complicated.
Absolutely brilliant video! I knew some of the Bill Veeck stories, including the midget batter, the lobster giveaway, the wooden leg ashtray, and disco demolition night. I didn't know about the outfield wall being moved between home and away batters. And didn't know about the crouching batter stance rule. This has been a fun and enlightening 9 minutes. 👍👍
My dad and me talked about Gaedel and what if someone tried it again. One thing my dad mentioned was what if the pitcher starts throwing at the little guy, for someone not experienced with rhis at all, with no athleticism, 95 mph coming at you might change your mind quick. Another problem we mentioned was it would be needed to be a DH likely, and you also just used up a bench spot in the 1st inning when benches are smaller today with all the pitchers on the roster.
Im fairly certain most major league pitchers nowadays wouldn't have any problem hitting a dwarf's strike zone. Especially if he was specifically instructed never to swing because all the pitcher would need to worry about is control. No secondary pitches, no high velo, nothing. If Spencer Strider can put a 100mph fastball in the upper outside quadrant of a normal batter's zone he can put a casual 88mph fastball somewhere in a the zone of a guy who is 110cm.
I don't think too many more pitchers back then would have necessarily had a hard time, to be fair. Bob Cain gave up 95 BBs in 175 innings in 1951. So, he did have below average control.
So the ADA prevents discrimination based off a disability (I.e. dwarfism) but there are workarounds that would essentially do the same thing based off “required job functions”. The MLB would probably claim they have a minimum height requirement for safety, faithful execution of ump job functions, and potential undue economic impact that upsetting the meta of the game would cause, all of which are pretty standard objections to the ADA.
Disabled people have their own leagues or divisions, eg wheelchair basketball and wheelchair bodybuilding or special Olympics. They don't join into regular divisions
Very few videos in this category has the reaction of "I need a cigarette now" these days Crazy Bonus, includes a high powered rifle! Don't see that everyday when it comes to baseball!
Rewatching this for the second time, I can’t believe I missed the RuneScape reference with the lobsters and the chat font on screen my first time watching it.
I hit the ball twice in eight years playing baseball, so my baseball coach made me lunge. I walked 75% of the season. We went undefeated Edit: I’m 5’11” my shoulders were about 7 inches from my knees.
My first thought when it was said 1951 its gotta be Bill Veck being involved 20 seconds later Bill Veck name came up. Gotta love consistency of shinanigans he is involved in.
i was looking at old photos of the astros they have at minute maid park. and there seemed to be like a team manager who was a dwarf for the astros. was like 70s era i think.
I mean you can fix the issue with the little strike zone by making a minimum size strike zone that also must be X inches from the ground. It would only apply if the normal strike zone was smaller than the minimum or if the height of the zone was too low to the ground.
I'd say it heavily depends on the pitcher. Especially if he knows the batter ain't swinging. So he basically just needs to rely on control and not velocity or breaking. I mean there are catchers who are crazy on point across the whole diamond.
In an alternate universe, baseball has evolved into a sport where two teams of little people parade in endless, walk driven loops around the diamond. A single strike is now an out, and the games last days, sometimes even weeks.
"A dwarf convinced the Yankees that he had mystical powers."
... Are you not going to elaborate on that at all??
I figured you were a baseball head when you went on that world series/Trevor Bauer tangent in your clown vid lol
It’s the Yankees. We don’t ask questions
That was probably the most 1800s-baseball phrase I have ever heard in my life
@@_______28Except the part about it happening in the 1920's right? Lol
Not much more to elaborate on. You can look up Derek Jeter yourself if you need more details.
Okay this story is all kinds of fucked up, but having his number be 1/8th is so funny 😂
"all kinds of fucked up" is what Bill Veeck did best
They didn’t have a jersey that small so they gave him the bat boy’s (bill dewitt) jersey
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Its not that fucked up apart from the way eddie died, sports is about entertainment and ig the novelty of midgets wears off when they walk every other at bat.
bruh come on thats low hanging fruit. i legit feel bad for the guy
6’ 7” Aaron judge uses his freak genetics to excel at baseball: I sleep
3’ 7” Eddie Gaedel uses his freak genetics to excel at baseball: real shit
Yes, the issue though is that being tall isn't necessarily as big of an advantage as being super short with no strike zone is. There have been a few super tall baseball players like Randy Johnson. Johnson is 6'10" and as far as I know, the only pitcher to ever kill a bird during a game. He was a great pitcher and dominating, but not so dominating as to require a rule to be created to prevent that from happening again.
In the case of Eddie, he was so short that his strike zone would be only a couple inches wide, meaning that if the pitcher wanted any chance of a strike out, they would need to put it where he could hit it. The main strategy would be to pitch as slowly and softly as possible to try and make him run for the bases, something that he was presumably quite a bit slower at than a typical player.
One is actually playing the sport. One is just standing there using a loophole in the rules.
Useless info: Dave Winfield wasn't a pitcher, but he accidentally killed a seagull with a throw in 1983.@@SmallSpoonBrigade
@@Js-eq7yd sounds like a pitcher skill issue
Exactly a little person can't even hit the ball or run the bases to any effect, where as 6' 7" is like the perfect height for an athlete. Everyone who upvoted this post has brain damage. @@Js-eq7yd
"He never actually got to play, the team would just rub him for good luck before at bats."
I was not expecting the end of that sentence
like his paying was a hundred dollar, but the cake being even more expansive?
Shit was crazy
@@jackfry But we all knew our place.
Sigh.
😂😂😂
Altuve must've slipped into the league unnoticed
That’s messed up 😂
And now look at him.
2x World Champ
MVP
.307 career batting avg
200+ career homers
200+ steals
They never should've let him in 😭
So true
I mean he is 5'6. While he is considered the shortest guy in the league the league just has a bunch of people that are probably closer to 6'0.
You could say he was overlooked
To add a bit onto Gaedel's story:
Bob Cain, the Tigers pitcher, found the situation so unbelievable that (per Veeck) he "was laughing so hard that he could barely throw" after the first two pitches.
Cain was also the only major leaguer to attend Gaedel's funeral.
why would other mlb players go?
@@nomercyinc6783why not?
Discrimination ofc
Reverse it now lol jk
@@Correa24boribecause funerals aren't open events
@@blazingbattlehawk9626 doesn’t mean players can’t go to one.
"He died 10 years later by getting beat up when leaving a bowling alley"
Somehow the part of the video that made me want some elaboration the most
Exactly he just moved on so fast. I did some more research and apparently the beating caused a heart attack after he crawled all the way back to his mothers home. Crawled in bed, and died that night. His mother found him the next morning. This is sad asf and just looked over.
@@davidlewisjr313 I don't blame him for looking it over, he'd have to tilt his head pretty far down.
The part where it turned into a documentary about Bill Veeck was the funniest bit
Every morning Bill Veeck woke up, he said, "I have the greatest idea to sell more tickets!"
That sounds like a Phineas and Ferb character
Bro is a genius....
Unironically
He is the ultimate youtUber before youtuber. He is very good
Now that's a guy who could actually get me to attend baseball games.
Even though baseball doesn’t exist, this channel still makes kick ass videos about it. Major skill
the man has created entire lore, a bunch of fictional characters, and hired numerous actors to film this footage, this is an insane amount of work for a fake sport
@@BendyDH A fake sport? implying that sport is real to begin with.
idk how i found u guys but hey are any of you real?@@Player_O1ne
@@Player_O1ne Saying " _sport_ " like it is a real word in english language is insane.
@@hullbreaker45que es "English"?
He was beat to death outside of a bowling alley and then the next day they voided his contract and banned dwarves from playing? Thats some shady as hell shit right there.
No, they voided his contract the day after his at bat. He was killed a decade later.
@@artemthetrain14 ah guess i misunderstood it.
@@Xzile40 ya he said it weirdly tbh!
Why would someone beat a dwarf to death
@@tobermoryx3700I assume for the same reasons they would beat anyone else to death.
Is there something like a bowling hustler?
“They didn’t let him play they just rubbed him for good luck” made my day😂
Eddie Gaedel's grandnephew nearly joined him in the majors. 6'3" OFer Kyle Gaedele was drafted in the 6th round of the 2011 MLB draft and made it to AA before flaming out. He still plays independent ball
Another banger. Now it sounds like we need a whole video just for Bill Veeck
I second this
I third this
4th
There could be a whole series of videos on that man alone lol
Watch The Saint of Second Chances
It would take a dwarf with mystical powers to convince the Yankees to hire a dwarf claiming to have mystical powers.
A couple things
1. The most common phenotype of dwarfism results in a relatively normal torso length and short legs.
2. It seems possible to me that a little person could be good enough at baseball that they could contribute in ways besides getting walked. The fastest little people in the world can run 100m in under 15 seconds. Thats definitely slow by mlb standards but not unheard of. Dwarfism has an incidence of 1/25000, so there are around 15000 little people in the united states, including about 2000 men in or near their athletic prime. Extend that to the whole world and you get around 40000 eligible little people.
Remember, they dont need to be mlb caliber in their skills, they would just need to be good enough that they arent completely useless on the field-- good enough that the advantages they bring outweigh the deficits in "traditional" baseball performance
I guess with odds like those, it’s really weird that I grew up next to a dwarf. She invited us to a local dwarfism awareness thing and there were plenty of little people there.
it also feels like it would be less ugly and demeaning to hire a little person who was expected to like... play? like, i think the whole thing comes off a lot less freak show if you're like 'look this person has a tiny strike zone but also will bunt sometimes' or whatever
I hear you, but we're talking about the big leagues, so how would a dwarf be good at any aspect of baseball to the level where he'd be serviceable in any other facet than to be walked? Anyone deficient on the basepaths generally makes up for it in power, which enables them to avoid baserunning more. So you get a dwarf who never gets past first now having to run all those bases and it'd have to be at the DH position because you won't find one who wouldn't be a total liability defensively on a MLB team. Like you'd have to have the top superstar athlete dwarf to even think about this working and even then, it's not that inspiring of a proposition.
@bennylevine387 my point is that, if they could consistently get walked, they wouldn't have to be "MLB good" in order to provide net utility to their team with multiple at bats per game as a DH. A 15 second 100m is fairly slow by mlb standards but not out of place, and the disadvantages in speed conferred by short legs would be of lower relevance since baserunning is more about acceleration than top end speed.
@@mikeCD62 Yeah, I'm not even disagreeing. I don't think anyone could wrap their head around all the possibilities. Or if maybe it'd be better just to have one in a pinch-hitting capacity to get that walk under optimal conditions, rather than letting the dwarf run bases or have to slide, which I'm not sure they can do proficiently. And I'd be interested where they're holding dwarf track meets to where you can quote times. Or if they need that first length of distance to get rolling and their base-running wouldn't translate. An interesting thing to ponder though to be sure.
"A GOOD LUCK DWARF"
god i love baseball so much
dwarves have been kept for good luck for thousands of years. lords would sometimes employ dwarves to their court so they could flex on everyone
Imagine being a full grown man (albeit, very small) and being held like a baby by a professional baseball player because "you're good luck"
@@aamryso dope
@@aamry i mean, if i liked the baseball player I'd do it. but maybe I'd feel different if i was 3'4
Me telling my friend who’s an inch shorter then me that his baseball dream will never succeeed since hes banned
And you are how tall?
@@moquilla1I haven’t checked in a while but I think I’m 5-9 or 5-10
@@HerMajestyVelvet I guess I don’t get the joke. Altuve is 5’6….why would your friend be banned?
@@moquilla1 it’s just a joke basically
@@moquilla1it’s a joke about me making fun of my friend bc hes shorter then me
I was very short growing up, I actually made the cities highest level of baseball team. I was on the team for 1 reason; to get walked and steal every base to home. I was one of the fastest guys and my strikezone was so small pitchers rarely struck me out. I played outfield and 2nd base.
on my highschool soccer team my teammate was a dwarf who was extremely fast in a short sprint. we won many games together in which he was the one I was passing to so he could score which he did. was one of our top scorerers aswell as he could dribble and shoot very quickly.
Dribble in soccer?
@@GizmoMaltese yes it exists
The old school RuneScape lobster icon was a solid choice for that bit
Lol it was like an addiction trigger
Man us OSRS comunity must be dying cause just a few years ago the top comments would always be pointing out random bits in videos unrelated to runescape
@@vincentflannigan2727 People are staying in their lane
@@vincentflannigan2727 nah not dying just hit peak player count a few months ago
And the text font as well!
Bill Veeck (as in 'Wreck') was a damned genius.
Mike Veeck his son was partially responsible for Disco Demolition Night fiasco. Steve Dahl, the local DJ was the other guy responsible for it.
I was like, how is this gonna help? then oohh!
The dude owned and I wish they made a movie about him.
@@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY
In fact, he owned several teams
Great book
3:56 Okay, I noticed that RuneScape '36' font and lobster! Smooth! 😛
I love you pacing and storytelling. I wish you could do every video of interest I watch.
This was basically my entire offensive strategy in Little League.
I was better at pitching threw out my youth/high school, but yeah when I hit, I did take too many pitches, drew a lot of BBs (possibly 1/3 of my PAs).
Me too but the ump was an idiot so it didn’t work
Babe wake up new Baseball Doesn’t Exist video.
I’m a simple man, I see Bill Veeck, I click
Very original comment
Fax
Babe Ruth wake up
I’m up.
3:55 I always love your runescape references.
3:57 this man pioneered "twitch chat plays" decades before the internet was invented
The first little person on the video is a batboy/team assistant for the aguilas de mexicali in the mexican pacific league. Hes a well known legend in Mexico. They call him “Chevale”👏 👏 He made it to @baseballDoesntExist, took his legendary status to another level🚀
the word is midget
“Little person” is so much worse than dwarf 😂
@@SBDdauntless Nah, organizations that support them go by titles like: "Little People of America" (LPA). Same as a "Trans person" or "Black person".
But I get where you're coming from, I could see a lot of people getting offended at the title, "Big person".
What is this little guy wearing under his uniform. 1:06 Is he wearing like 10 bulletproof vest? Or is he wearing 3 water life preservers vests?
My buddy Mason played little league with me up until we got older and bigger….. but for those few years he was our #3 batter and I was our clean up. He would get walked EVERY TIME. and I was so fat we ran at the same speed 😂 I’ll never forget those legendary times
I am cackling over the tiny Elly De La Cruz 🤣
Sometimes I forget this is my favorite channel on youtube.
Bridgeport Bluefish, who no longer exist, was the team, was the team from the Atlantic League you mentioned. The players name was Colin Buckingham.
I grew up going to Bluefish games, miss the team!
Multiple teams having a little person for luck purposes is my favorite MLB fun fact
See Charlie "Victory" Faust for deadball era good luck charms. Actually got into a couple games. I think he does have a SABR page.
What do you mean? like a rabbits foot or something?
@@BryanChanceI believe so.
Aye you just gained a subscriber. MLB need to hire you at this point. You made baseball interesting for me. Never thought that would happen. 😂 this also helps me realize baseball got a lot of rules that need adjusting . The strike zone rule is crazy
4:16 Disco Demolition Night was an idea envisioned by his son and a local Chicago DJ. Bill Veeck approved the idea however. Also, Bill Veeck’s wife conceived the idea that ball players wore shorts instead of pants. It lasted one season and players wore them for a couple of games.
the runescape lobster pic just made my day love your videos bro keep em coming!
Had to come to the comments to make sure someone else caught it too. Selling lobbies btw
Now if only that was 73 lobsters
Loved this 😂
@@LeaminOwnsAllhow much for 28? going to wildy
Santa doesn’t want his elves to be slacking off
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is just an allegory for the antebellum American South, of course
Bro😭🙏😭
That RuneScape nod was a nice touch.
This entire thing sounds like a premise of a movie starting Will Ferrel as Veeck haha.
I don’t know if it was intentional or not but this is your shortest video 😂
The easy fix is to make a minimum height of the strikezone.
You mean make a rule that specifically gives a disadvantage to players below a certain height? I'm not sure the ada would be much happier with that. It would probably have to be a universal strike zone to make them happier. But I think it's more likely they would get rid of the DH and add stipulations around pinch hitters requiring them to field an inning.
@@The_Taken_Names It's not a disadvantage, they'd still have the smallest possible strike zone compared to larger players with way bigger strike zones.
@@d_mb I think that's the point. The rule wouldn't be discriminatory because it applies to everyone, it just would facilitate that people who cannot fit the strike zone wouldn't be considered skilled enough to play. Same way with the NBA hoop height, MLB base size, size of a baseball, etc. Applies to everyone, regardless of physical ability.
@@djii7837 i think this is right, not a lawyer, but the case against it would be does it apply more to a few than to all the others. like let's say it's a 1ft x 1ft min for the aruguement, if the only people that the minimum applies to, are little people/ dwarfs, then it could still be effectively discriminatory which would still be a litigious issue.
a minimum height that the strike zone boundaries can be at might be better than a minimum area of the strikezone, which i think is what y'all are saying now and i'm misreading this. oh well
@@OmniBui There could also be a case raised if someone challenged the ban, that an individual is not “otherwise qualified” to be an MLB player if the only thing that makes them attractive to an MLB team is the fact that they are so short they could likely walk an insanely high amount of the time. The ability to actually hit, field, and throw would likely be considered essential functions of the job. Even if that’s not the case there would also be a case from a safety standpoint although I think that would be even more complicated.
Great video! Would you consider making a video on the Steinbrenner vs Dave Winfield saga?
Bill Veeck is like real life TF2 character with the craziest antics.
Absolutely brilliant video! I knew some of the Bill Veeck stories, including the midget batter, the lobster giveaway, the wooden leg ashtray, and disco demolition night. I didn't know about the outfield wall being moved between home and away batters. And didn't know about the crouching batter stance rule. This has been a fun and enlightening 9 minutes. 👍👍
His memoir is full of such stories, “Veeck as in Wreck”
The best creator on youtube strikes again!
3:57 the osrs lobster 🦞 😂
Started the video with the Aguilas de Mexicali! NICE
The small shohei 💀💀💀💀 1:37
Most enticing video title I have seen in a long long time.
I live in York PA - the revs stadium is literally in my back yard and I had no idea about this.
2:47 I'm curious, the Yankees rubbed the dwarf for good luck, was it any particular part of his body?
wild. can't believe i never thought of that.
Love your unique style, never change!
Just a totally normal comment not made by a bot.
Veeck apparently told Eddie to take his stance at the plate and then yell out to the pitcher, "Chuck it in here and i'll moider it!"
The story of Ed Gaedel was one of my dad’s favorite anecdotes to tell. You nailed it all the way down to the high powered rifle.
Jose altuve still plays
This is even crazier than not allowing Barry Bonds to play without a bat.
What would he hit ball with. His teeth
@@SoulDelSolHe wouldn't swing at all.
3:55 haha nice runescape lobster :D
My dad and me talked about Gaedel and what if someone tried it again. One thing my dad mentioned was what if the pitcher starts throwing at the little guy, for someone not experienced with rhis at all, with no athleticism, 95 mph coming at you might change your mind quick.
Another problem we mentioned was it would be needed to be a DH likely, and you also just used up a bench spot in the 1st inning when benches are smaller today with all the pitchers on the roster.
My dad and I....
@@justayoutuber1906 nerd
How you think altuve feels
pretty happy knowing he has 2 ws rings.
I’m high asf I was not expecting that shit at 2:15💀💀💀💀💀
😂
Im not even a massive baseball fan, but your vids are always an amazing watch.
Make more vids baseball season is coming up and you’re the one that got me into the sport.
3:46 Satchel Paige also played in 5 decades
He played professional baseball for 5 decades but not in the MLB
Having the number 1/8 is crazy 🤣
Informative and to the point, thank you
OMG That Altuve joike at the end was brilliant.
Let the people have their shining moment due to their height. We don't ban 7 foot 5 giants in basketball. Come on
2:58 Nelson De La Rosa (RIP) wasn't just a very little man... At one time he was the world's shortest human, as certified by Guinness World Records.
Good ol lil Pete as they called him on Red Sox land loved that guy
He was also in the Marlon Brando remake of the Island of Dr. Moreau (and probably the only good reason to watch it)
Im fairly certain most major league pitchers nowadays wouldn't have any problem hitting a dwarf's strike zone. Especially if he was specifically instructed never to swing because all the pitcher would need to worry about is control. No secondary pitches, no high velo, nothing. If Spencer Strider can put a 100mph fastball in the upper outside quadrant of a normal batter's zone he can put a casual 88mph fastball somewhere in a the zone of a guy who is 110cm.
I don't think too many more pitchers back then would have necessarily had a hard time, to be fair. Bob Cain gave up 95 BBs in 175 innings in 1951. So, he did have below average control.
holy crap no way did you just pull the lobby from rs xD i thought i loved this channel before but wow man that was a nice touch!!!!!
So the ADA prevents discrimination based off a disability (I.e. dwarfism) but there are workarounds that would essentially do the same thing based off “required job functions”. The MLB would probably claim they have a minimum height requirement for safety, faithful execution of ump job functions, and potential undue economic impact that upsetting the meta of the game would cause, all of which are pretty standard objections to the ADA.
Disabled people have their own leagues or divisions, eg wheelchair basketball and wheelchair bodybuilding or special Olympics. They don't join into regular divisions
Talk about short stop
Bro didn't have to do 'em like that.
Okay, the "fans as managers for a game" one is genius. That'd be so cool to do today with an app, I think it'd be a hit.
fr why dont pro sports do fun stuff like that occasionally
I see you with the runescape lobster icon 😂
So how is Jose Altuve still in the league..?
Because he’s a great player?
@@warlordofbritannia You must be a JOY to be around..
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Oh…yeah wow I…there’s no excuse, I deserve a wooosh 😂
He just called a little person an “it” on 7:06
No he didn't? Are you high?
@@user-ix9lx4sp1z you can hear where the audio clips where he later edited it, bucko :P
Very few videos in this category has the reaction of "I need a cigarette now" these days
Crazy
Bonus, includes a high powered rifle! Don't see that everyday when it comes to baseball!
Rewatching this for the second time, I can’t believe I missed the RuneScape reference with the lobsters and the chat font on screen my first time watching it.
Poor altuve is finally going to get banned?
I bet he’s using lifts.
I hit the ball twice in eight years playing baseball, so my baseball coach made me lunge. I walked 75% of the season. We went undefeated
Edit:
I’m 5’11” my shoulders were about 7 inches from my knees.
This was one of the wildest videos ive seen in a while, from mystical dwarfs to a dude with a wooden leg with an ash tray wtf
you always make me laugh and waste my school time. ty
This would all be so cool... if baseball existed
My first thought when it was said 1951 its gotta be Bill Veck being involved 20 seconds later Bill Veck name came up. Gotta love consistency of shinanigans he is involved in.
i was looking at old photos of the astros they have at minute maid park. and there seemed to be like a team manager who was a dwarf for the astros. was like 70s era i think.
think he was wearing a cowboy hat in some of the photos. it was the yearly team photos they took.
I remember
I mean you can fix the issue with the little strike zone by making a minimum size strike zone that also must be X inches from the ground. It would only apply if the normal strike zone was smaller than the minimum or if the height of the zone was too low to the ground.
I'd say it heavily depends on the pitcher. Especially if he knows the batter ain't swinging. So he basically just needs to rely on control and not velocity or breaking. I mean there are catchers who are crazy on point across the whole diamond.
Would've never guessed this video would be this interesting. Well put together video 👏
i love this video. it beautifully highlights just how old timey baseball philosophy is.
4:00
bro really said "chat is this real?" irl
The old school RuneScape animation lobster was too good
the runescape lobster killed me lol
lol the moment i heard wooden leg that he also used as an astray i knew this was going to be wild and it was even wilder than i expected
In an alternate universe, baseball has evolved into a sport where two teams of little people parade in endless, walk driven loops around the diamond. A single strike is now an out, and the games last days, sometimes even weeks.
im watching this as I play a fishing game in osrs and they use a picture of a lobster from osrs lmao!
you changed the opening song lmaoo
“So they would just rub him, for good luck, before at-bats.” is crrrraaaazyyyyyy😂😂😂
This is the exact moment I lost it 5:33