Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for July 06, 2023

Only rivaled by Mel Famie. (Or Famey)

In spite of ESPN saying no, “Bolling for Dollars” is a great name.

One of the best to ever play the game.

Don’t play with your pud.

C is for Cobb

Who grew spikes and not corn,

And made all the basemen

Wish they weren’t born.

- Ogden Nash

Good one, Flash.

They dedicated a gypsum statue of him outside the stadium.

And was played in the movie of his life by his Great-Grandson, John C. Reilly… ☺

Ty Cobb actually did the home run thing – it was actually only 5 in 2 games, but AFAIK that record still stands.

Also infamously known as "The Sultan of Tw*t, " Pud Reilly was often hailed as a mixture of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. Interestingly, actor William Bendix turned down an offer to portray Reilly in 1948, preferring instead to be in the ridiculously fictionalized Babe Ruth Story.

How would he get syphilis? Oh, well, from a doorknob, like everybody else.

That 1908 batting championship was totally unfair. The strike zone for Billy “No Legs” Hale was much smaller than Pud’s.

His ten homer streak stands as a tribute to slackers everywhere.