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.com
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    27 days 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