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Footballguy
The Uecker thread had some great anecdotes.
A few that I have heard:
Billy Martin and Jimmy Piersall getting into a fistfight on THREE separate occasions in one day.
During batting practice Piersall stood in the Boston dugout teasing Martin about his large nose, calling him "big schnozz", "big honker", "banana nose". Martin came over and they swung fists.
In the game, Piersall slid hard into Martin trying to break up a double-play and a huge brawl ensued.
After the game, the bus taking the Boston players back to their hotel was pulling out just as Billy Martin was exiting in his car. Piersall slid open a window and started again on Martin about his nose. Martin got out and stood in front of the bus challenging Piersall. Piersall got off the bus and the two of them fought in the parking lot.
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The 1986 Divisional Playoffs between the Mets and Astros.
On the play ride home from Houston, every single Mets player and coach, from Strawberry and Gooden, and Carter down to the 25th man was out of control drunk.
Guys were having pissing contests, circle jerks, arm wrestling. They scared the flight attendants so much that they ran and hid in the cockpit.
They were so loud and obnoxious, so violent with their behavior that the pilot came on the intercom and said that if they did not settle down he was going to radio ahead to the FBI and land in Cleveland, at which point everyone on board would be charged with terrorism.
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Babe Ruth missed most of the 1925 season not because of some "stomach ailment" but because he had acquired a venereal disease from a prostitute and was getting treatment at an underground clinic in Cuba.
A few that I have heard:
Billy Martin and Jimmy Piersall getting into a fistfight on THREE separate occasions in one day.
During batting practice Piersall stood in the Boston dugout teasing Martin about his large nose, calling him "big schnozz", "big honker", "banana nose". Martin came over and they swung fists.
In the game, Piersall slid hard into Martin trying to break up a double-play and a huge brawl ensued.
After the game, the bus taking the Boston players back to their hotel was pulling out just as Billy Martin was exiting in his car. Piersall slid open a window and started again on Martin about his nose. Martin got out and stood in front of the bus challenging Piersall. Piersall got off the bus and the two of them fought in the parking lot.
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The 1986 Divisional Playoffs between the Mets and Astros.
On the play ride home from Houston, every single Mets player and coach, from Strawberry and Gooden, and Carter down to the 25th man was out of control drunk.
Guys were having pissing contests, circle jerks, arm wrestling. They scared the flight attendants so much that they ran and hid in the cockpit.
They were so loud and obnoxious, so violent with their behavior that the pilot came on the intercom and said that if they did not settle down he was going to radio ahead to the FBI and land in Cleveland, at which point everyone on board would be charged with terrorism.
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Babe Ruth missed most of the 1925 season not because of some "stomach ailment" but because he had acquired a venereal disease from a prostitute and was getting treatment at an underground clinic in Cuba.
