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Much like a one-hit wonder on the FM dial, we have glorified even the most obscure professional baseball players because they have lived the dream of actually being on the field, even if for only an at-bat or a half-inning in center field...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Stealing Dreams | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...have heard of Eddie Gaedel. At 3'7, he is the shortest person ever to play in a major-league game. In a stunt in 1951, Bill Veeck, owner of the St. Louis Browns, sent Gaedel to bat. He instructed Gaedel to stand at the plate and not swing and Gaedel promptly walked on four pitches...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Stealing Dreams | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...movie "Field of Dreams," the character of Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham is shown as a tender-hearted old man who once played in one inning of a major-league game but never got to bat and never figured into a defensive play...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Stealing Dreams | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...Bat Out of Hell 2, you sing a song called Objects in the Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are. Could you sing a song called Caution: Filling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meat Loaf | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...perverse invention indeed. My daughter walked the floor with this doll, as if trying to put it to sleep, and my wife and I sat like a couple of refugees and thought blank thoughts and longed for our bed. And then my wife went upstairs and discovered the bat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rice, the Bat, the Baby | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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