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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, May 27, 2022Baseball’s underground cheesesteak-eating contest
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Posted: May 27, 2022 at 11:12 AM | 14 comment(s)
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1. Jose is an Absurd Sultan Posted: May 27, 2022 at 11:18 AM (#6078659)"Also, I haven't taken a dump since April."
But are they better than Tony Luke's??
heh
There's a video of three Angels (including Ohtani) trying to bounce a baseball up onto a dugout step and trying to get it to stay and not roll off. Boys being boys. Ohtani won of course
Here's former Twins beat writer Jim Caple talking about it:
"Beyond a doubt the greatest feat I've seen is Cal Ripken climbing the Metrodome stairs leading from the field to the clubhouse in six strides. Let me tell you, it's a LONG, high staircase, with four landings and like 28 steps. Ripken turned going up it into a contest to see how many strides he could do it in and he eventually got it down to six.
Current Twins have heard this repeated as legend and they don't believe it's humanly possibly but I saw him do it one day and then he showed me exactly how he goes about it. and when he described it, I could tell that in addition to being a great athlete (and he was), he also put unbelievable thought and planning into whatever he did. I mean, this was a contest guaranteed to twist an ankle, but Ripken did it every time he was in Minnesota, regardless of the streak. People say he put the streak above everything else, but he didn't. It was incredibly important to him but he didn't worry about it or let it stop him from trying something risky athletically."
-- Jim Caple
ETA: The Mets were 15-11 while pounding those cheesesteaks. That would end up being the high point of their season. The lost 8 of 9 following the feat.
Boy, you don't see those words in that combination much anymore!
I so would love to know what John Kruk could have done in this contest back in his Philly days!
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