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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 110 points 6 days ago (8 children)

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

???!??!!!!!?!

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 80 points 6 days ago (7 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.

[–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

mf was too based for the early 1900s

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