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[TheIronSheik]

Normally, I'm not really big on these types of stories, but this one might be the best one I've ever read.  It has everything.

On this day in 1886, the Louisville Colonels beat the Cincinnati Red Stockings 5-3.  Louisville's Chicken Wolf (yes, that's his name) hit a game-deciding inside-the-park home run, though Cincinnati outfielder, Abner Powell, can be excused for failing to properly play the ball.  A stray dog who had been sleeping by the outfield fence was woken up by the commotion of the play, and the startled hound proceeded to attack Powell, distracting the outfielders long enough for Wolf to score.

Feral animals in the outfield sound like something MLB teams should consider for their parks next season.  

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Normally, I'm not really big on these types of stories, but this one might be the best one I've ever read.  It has everything.

On this day in 1886, the Louisville Colonels beat the Cincinnati Red Stockings 5-3.  Louisville's Chicken Wolf (yes, that's his name) hit a game-deciding inside-the-park home run, though Cincinnati outfielder, Abner Powell, can be excused for failing to properly play the ball.  A stray dog who had been sleeping by the outfield fence was woken up by the commotion of the play, and the startled hound proceeded to attack Powell, distracting the outfielders long enough for Wolf to score.

Feral animals in the outfield sound like something MLB teams should consider for their parks next season.  

Why outfield only?  they could provide great amusement along the base path and would potentially offer a good challenge to pitchers and catchers if they were allowed between the mound and home plate and were encouraged to try to grab the ball.

 

[The Man With No Name]

There were all kinds of wacky ballyards back then.

Reading   now--

                                  BALLPARK

Baseball in the American City

Excellent book on the history of baseball, mainly dealing with all the fields/parks and it goes way back.

 

[Tom Servo]

Normally, I'm not really big on these types of stories, but this one might be the best one I've ever read.  It has everything.

On this day in 1886, the Louisville Colonels beat the Cincinnati Red Stockings 5-3.  Louisville's Chicken Wolf (yes, that's his name) hit a game-deciding inside-the-park home run, though Cincinnati outfielder, Abner Powell, can be excused for failing to properly play the ball.  A stray dog who had been sleeping by the outfield fence was woken up by the commotion of the play, and the startled hound proceeded to attack Powell, distracting the outfielders long enough for Wolf to score.

Feral animals in the outfield sound like something MLB teams should consider for their parks next season.  

Guaranteed something like this will happen to the Mets before the season is over.

 

[wikkidpissah]

Not really all that pertinent, but i started going to Red Sox games on my own in 1965 and dogs were regular features in the Fenway bleachers on weekdays. With tickets at 50 cents and rarely more than a couple dozen denizens, i guess folks walking the dog in the Back Bay felt the ballpark to be a righteous stopover.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Normally, I'm not really big on these types of stories, but this one might be the best one I've ever read.  It has everything.

On this day in 1886, the Louisville Colonels beat the Cincinnati Red Stockings 5-3.  Louisville's Chicken Wolf (yes, that's his name) hit a game-deciding inside-the-park home run, though Cincinnati outfielder, Abner Powell, can be excused for failing to properly play the ball.  A stray dog who had been sleeping by the outfield fence was woken up by the commotion of the play, and the startled hound proceeded to attack Powell, distracting the outfielders long enough for Wolf to score.

Feral animals in the outfield sound like something MLB teams should consider for their parks next season.  

Yeah, the only time you see feral animals at sporting events anymore is when they show shots of the crowd at an Eagles home game.

 

[Megatron]

Yeah, the only time you see feral animals at sporting events anymore is when they show shots of the crowd at an Eagles home game.

I like this guy.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Yeah, the only time you see feral animals at sporting events anymore is when they show shots of the crowd at an Eagles home game.

Under dogs.

 

[Megatron]

Twins do it

I was hoping for a completely different link.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

1969

Zager and Evans end a six-week run at #1 with their smash-hit “In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)"

The American pop-rock duo Zager and Evans end a six-week run at the top of the charts with their ponderously titled single “In The Year 2525." It would be their one and only hit. 

Zager and Evans never returned to the pop charts after their triumphant debut in the summer of ’69. They disbanded just two years later.