Because we just can't get enough of other people's miseries, here are some links to more bizarre baseball injuries:
Baseball Injury Hall of Fame: "Giants head-case third baseman Chris Brown once begged out of the lineup because of a strained eyelid. He claimed he 'slept on it wrong.'"
Rash of Strange Injuries Afflicts Baseball: "San Diego Padres pitcher David Wells, whose colorful personal life is the stuff of legend, tried out a number of explanations for the severed tendon in his right wrist and the cut on his left palm before deciding on this one: He tripped over a bar stool while playfully chasing a buddy who had tapped him on the back, falling on a glass and bottle he was carrying."
Top 10 Weird Injuries in Professional Baseball: "Nolan Ryan was bitten by a coyote."
All-Bizarre Injury Team: "The master of all bizarre injuries, [Kevin Mitchell] once injured himself while eating a cupcake."
The Weird World of Baseball Injuries: "Though he seems to have tried, Wells has never truly challenged the all-time-record missing-in-action excuse of Cardinals pitcher Flint Rhem, but who has? Rhem went AWOL at the height of the '30 pennant race. It wasn't his fault, he explained to Branch Rickey. Gamblers kidnapped him and forced him to drink bootleg whiskey for two days."
Posted by Barb at June 8, 2005 02:33 PM | TrackBack