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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?!?
While in spring training with the Millers, Waddell helped save the city of Hickman, Kentucky, from a devastating flood in the spring of 1912.[15] Catching pneumonia, he lost much of the vitality that had sustained him, and a second flood in Hickman and another ensuing case of pneumonia in 1913 took the rest
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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.
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
. 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 😭😭😭😭
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
istg this would be me if ADHD medicine didn't exist
Little did anybody know that Rube was actually a dog in a human body.
There's no rule about dogs playing baseball, afawk, it could be an actual dog.
mf was too based for the early 1900s
Grandpa: I don’t have autism wtf are you talking about
Also Grandpa: I’ve meticulously organized my workshop and have a massive array of jars with lids fastened to the bottom side of my shelves; they are organized, in order, according to type, outer diameter, inner diameter, and finally, metallurgy.
It’s good to be orgranized and it ain’t no flex to not be BUT it’s the passion that really seal the deal here. It’s like how I don’t manage my cables simply because I like to be neat but more that I manage them because if they aren’t organized I cannot function at full capacity just knowing that things are a mess.
Gotta rizz ‘em with the ‘tism
I work in helicopter maintenance, so reading this I was thinking, "yeah, and?"
It makes any task so much faster when you know exactly where the thing you need is.
The metallurgy is important, too, because different things corrode at different rates, and in contact with different metals.
Incidentally, that part in Big Hero 6 when Wasabi has his tools lined out, with every part and tool accounted for, I thought his shop area was well maintained and appropriate, especially working with such dangerous technology. Then they tried to portray him as mildly OCD or something, and I just thought everyone else was wrong. And Go-Go just grabbing a tool without checking it out was completely inappropriate and poor tool control.
Oh buddy have you seen the hangar safety video? It's long but I don't regret watching it. I'll set the link to the part you mentioned.
That's hilarious, I worked with the guy in the video who bro-ed out with a wrench in his pocket.
Edit: watched more of the video, I worked with the guy doing the rap at the beginning as well. Small world.
my grandpa obsessed over fishing, TV sports, and Volkswagen beetles, every year for Christmas I would get him a little beetle figurine. he is 100% the source of autism in our family
Highly recommended podcast episode about it.
Was going to recommend the dollop episode on him if it wasn’t already.
Absolutely, came here looking for this. Great episode.
They'll say this and then not remember that dude who cataloged like a thousand types of fern or some shit in his life.
I once visited a museum in Split where they had the lifework of a guy on display: dozens of scenes filled with taxidermy frogs going about their human like lives.
I hope he got a puppy :(
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
Yeah how the hell do you engage in swashbuckling in Pittsburgh‽
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.
They've changed their name since. Now they're the Chicago Cubs
They should go back.
well i am not a baseball fan and am usually very bad at picking "favorites" but this is an easy "favorite basball player" if anyone asks me from now on.
Sounds like a fuckin banger of an existence
He lived to the ripe old age of 37
Turns out that folks with BPD can be geniuses at things to.
The dollop made an excellent episode on this guy: The Rube
wow