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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 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