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

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    37·
    17 hours ago

    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

    • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      13 hours ago

      i think the washington commanders should’ve went with “washington kindergarten” or “washington rich snobs”

      • frog@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        13 hours ago

        In an official complaint, an AA official claimed the Alleghenys’ signing of Bierbauer was “piratical”.[12] This incident quickly accelerated into a schism between the leagues that contributed to the demise of the A.A. Although the Alleghenys were never found guilty of wrongdoing, their allegedly “piratical” act gained them the occasional nickname “Pirates” from newspapers around the country, starting in 1891. Within a few years, the nickname caught on with even Pittsburgh newspapers.[13] The nickname was first acknowledged on the team’s uniforms in 1912.

        Source: Wikipedia