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"autism didn't exist back in my day" (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours 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 16 hours ago (2 children)

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 76 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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 49 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

. 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 58 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 24 points 16 hours ago

istg this would be me if ADHD medicine didn't exist

[–] eah@programming.dev 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Little did anybody know that Rube was actually a dog in a human body.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 9 hours ago

There's no rule about dogs playing baseball, afawk, it could be an actual dog.

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

mf was too based for the early 1900s