When my neighbor friend introduced me to baseball cards and old players, I got a 1961 Fleer Baseball greats Rube Waddell. I learned he was quite eccentric.That was over 60 years ago. I think he had the record for strikeouts until Nolan Ryan One of the great players of his time.

No it deffinatly wasnt until Nolan Ryan.Ryan broke Walter Johnsons strikeout record.

He's buried in Mission Park South in San Antonio Texas. I think he was only 38. By the way, Ross Youngs (1897-1927) is also buried there.

@@garyfaught3769 Yes sir, we also stopped by to pay respects to him as well. Hope all is the best it can be for you and yours.

Well done!!

There really should be. It'd be amazing.

The idea is great, but too many questions concerning the script and even marketing the movie, not to mention who plays the title role. To pull it off you'd have to be an extremely rare type of actor, and I'm not sure who could do it. Plus baseball movies don't historically do well at the box office, so no major studio would be interested; it would have to be an indie studio.

@@PitchingNinjaVideos Ring Lardner wrote a story that was at least partly inspired by Waddell. It's called "My Roomy" and is well worth reading. I'm sure it can be found somewhere on the internet because it's been widely anthologized. While it is funny, it also brings out a very dark side of a "fun" baseball eccentric. Lardner knew what he was writing about.

Norm Macdonald would’ve played a good Rube RIP to both legends

@@elc1960 Daniel Day Louis. He can play any character. He becomes the character. Check him out in the movie And there will be blood. Its free on youtube right now.

that’s hilarious 😂

That’s amazing. I’d bet they just went and got hammered 😂

@@Gixsir That’s a good bet 😂

Came back smelling like not walleye fish.

Purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka!

the "keith moon of baseball"?! i salute you, sir!

Perfect analogy. I would have liked him too. Stats don't lie either.

There are a few documentaries on KZfaq about him all pretty similar but good

Yeah he sure taught geese to jump rope and twirl it also 😂

Strikeout leader 1900-1908, held the strikeout record from 1904 to 1964.

U got a weird sense of great

You need to read the article in NINE that dismantles Leehrsen's book as a tissue of special pleading and distortions of fact. Steven Eliot Tripp, "Fake History? Charles Leerhsen and the Redemption of Ty Cobb."

Stump was a serial fabulist.

Thanks-will do!

Found your burner mr manfred. Trevor is very sane. No amount of misinformation from you or the mlb offices will change that fact 🤡🤡🤡🤡

If Bauer isn’t insane, he’s pretty childish according to his behavior…

@@larrywest538 my reaction was that he's not insane. i dont think he's that childish compared to practically everyone i encounter in my daily. he has really stupid opinions about a lot of things but 1/4 of the country thinks the earth is flat. a lot of people have stupid ideas and no desire to even find out if they're correct. i've tended to regard this guy as an entirely milquetoast modern day ty cobb figure. i actually like his YT content quite a bit.

​@@muddro420he's a loner with alot of ill will for civilization because he was bullied most of his life. Those who have been on the bullied end of the equation (group B) for whatever reason the bullying will all be able to relate and many will stick up for someone being bullied. Most people in this group wont bully others except if an opportunity presents itself to confront somebody thats bullied them in the past but now the number of supporters has shifted and the victim sees an opportunity for revenge. Trevor bauer is part of group B. Most serial killers are from group B. Those on the other end of the equation the bullies (group A) won't be able to relate. Thinking only of themselves with very little regard for others these are the people responsible for creating group B. These are the people that think they make the world go around. Believing they are better than everyone else and would never consider helping a person being bullied unless maybe that person were family or a friend or unless required by law as part of their job description. Most police officers come from this group choosing that profession so they can be in a position of authority and opportunity to feed their inflated ego daily by bullying somebody because it makes them feel superior to and or better than others. Also many athletes and people with inflated egos come from group A as do most of those who make up the richest 1% of society, bullying others to feed their own large inflated egos and in their own eyes assert themselves at the top of the food chain. Then there is about half the people that aren't on either end of the equation. Half of these people understand and don't find it funny or cool to bully somebody (group C) hence the reason they aren't in group A. Many of the people in this group will actually come to a victims defence and help send a bully packing when the victim is outnumbered or being unnecessarily harassed. This is the group where most law abiding citizens without large egos to feed come from. The average Joes so to speak. The other half of this group (group D) don't really spend much time feeling sympathetic for someone being bullied but are more apt to just turn and walk away to avoid the whole situation altogether than they are to join in on the bullying. Likely more concerned about being the next victim themselves than any thoughts or concerns for the one being bullied. Nobody in this group has the balls to help a victim or have the machismo and extra testosterone usually necassary to be a bully. Most nerds come from group D as do most gay men. Pretty much everyone fits into one of these 4 groups. Which group do you fall into?

Bauer is perfectly sane and it's a shame how screwed he's getting.

There's a bunch of definitions of the modern era of baseball that I've heard. One is the "expansion era" from 1961 on, and another is the "live-ball era" from 1920 on. I think I've also heard the world series era (1903-today) called the modern era, though. And then if you ask the hall of fame "modern era committee", it's like 1995. Who knows.

Is that a money back guarantee? 7 year bumper to bumper? What exactly are you saying? A guarantee had to offer some renumeration. Or are you just promising to be a big Rube fan. A promise just has reputational value.

10 straight years at 200+ innings per year..... what would THAT be worth today..?

​@@csnide6702about 10 years 150+ 7 years 175+ or 4 years 200+:

Legend

The real “wild thing”

Hey, he wasn't picky

@@wingracer1614 I guess you can say that

And they had to have real teeth too...lmao

My dad went. Got drunk, great times had by all.

He was possessed by Legion! That’s the only reason they won’t make a movie about him. The demons gave him extraordinary arm strength and caused him to do things that we consider erratic and crazy. But the demons were doing whatever they wanted to and took him along for the ride. That’s why he was born on Friday the 13th & died on April Fools day.. demonic symbolism.

Yeah but the mound was A LOT higher.

Hell Yeah...This Dude is almost truly more of a Legend than the Babe ever was... The stories??? This guy has so many angles for a biopic... Rube it seemed had ADHD, this guy was all over the place...But he had a big heart...Died a Hero. It'd make such good story for film... Someone call Kevin Costner...

Wow--that's pretty cool. Need to have a monument or something!

Right? I wasn't really aware of his ring work, but that name stands out for the older wrestling legends.

LOL, that's oddly specific. Funny as hell though 😅

@@ThatMeansHesMad I’ve been saying that for years. You’re the first person who found it funny. Made my day.

@@darkstar92772 Funny thing is, if word of this got to Zack, I could totally see him going along with it. Love that dude

@@ThatMeansHesMad Now that you mention it, I can see that.

I can literally hear him with a signature redneck voice saying that

He is mentioned right at the start...

They did...

I think he looks a little like Christopher Reeve.

Just a man with a mind for victory and an arm like a fucking cannon

There needs to be one!

I was! That's funny.

@@PitchingNinjaVideos oh dang, wish I could’ve said hi but I was running late for my flight 😂

Slit his own throat after he killed his family? There is a Wikipedia page