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"autism didn't exist back in my day" (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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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?!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Waddell

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[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 109 points 4 days ago

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

???!??!!!!!?!

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 79 points 4 days ago

Waddell's increasingly erratic behavior included an incident in which he got into a fistfight on a cross-country train after making fun of a teammate's straw hat.

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 94 points 4 days ago

Recent commentators such as Bill James have suggested that Waddell suffered from a developmental disability, mental retardation, autism, or attention deficit disorder (ADD). Not much was known about these mental conditions, or their diagnoses, at the time.

the man who chased firetrucks during a major league baseball game has autism?! shocked I tell you

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 63 points 4 days ago

. But in a league game in Detroit, Waddell actually had his outfielders come in close and sit down on the grass to watch him strike out the side

he wanted his friends to watch him do a trick 😭😭😭😭

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 74 points 4 days ago

Mack offered Waddell a three-day fishing vacation if he agreed to pitch the second game. After Waddell threw a complete-game shutout for the victory, he headed to Pewaukee Lake to go fishing.

omg they bribed him with fishing to work for them that's so cuteee