Why MLB Banned Dwarfs From Baseball

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@CZsWorld 3 ай бұрын

"A dwarf convinced the Yankees that he had mystical powers." ... Are you not going to elaborate on that at all??

@ItsGamingFancy 3 ай бұрын

I figured you were a baseball head when you went on that world series/Trevor Bauer tangent in your clown vid lol

@garyoakham9723 3 ай бұрын

It’s the Yankees. We don’t ask questions

@_______28 3 ай бұрын

That was probably the most 1800s-baseball phrase I have ever heard in my life

@DaveFerguson-vh5fn 3 ай бұрын

@@_______28Except the part about it happening in the 1920's right? Lol

@misterbeeps 3 ай бұрын

Not much more to elaborate on. You can look up Derek Jeter yourself if you need more details.

@LucidProtean 3 ай бұрын

Okay this story is all kinds of fucked up, but having his number be 1/8th is so funny 😂

@theunwelcome 3 ай бұрын

"all kinds of fucked up" is what Bill Veeck did best

@telaviefilms280 3 ай бұрын

They didn’t have a jersey that small so they gave him the bat boy’s (bill dewitt) jersey

@mark_kline 3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@antonioreconquistador 3 ай бұрын

Its not that fucked up apart from the way eddie died, sports is about entertainment and ig the novelty of midgets wears off when they walk every other at bat.

@IceKing89 3 ай бұрын

bruh come on thats low hanging fruit. i legit feel bad for the guy

@nickmahr3354 3 ай бұрын

6’ 7” Aaron judge uses his freak genetics to excel at baseball: I sleep 3’ 7” Eddie Gaedel uses his freak genetics to excel at baseball: real shit

@SmallSpoonBrigade 3 ай бұрын

Yes, the issue though is that being tall isn't necessarily as big of an advantage as being super short with no strike zone is. There have been a few super tall baseball players like Randy Johnson. Johnson is 6'10" and as far as I know, the only pitcher to ever kill a bird during a game. He was a great pitcher and dominating, but not so dominating as to require a rule to be created to prevent that from happening again. In the case of Eddie, he was so short that his strike zone would be only a couple inches wide, meaning that if the pitcher wanted any chance of a strike out, they would need to put it where he could hit it. The main strategy would be to pitch as slowly and softly as possible to try and make him run for the bases, something that he was presumably quite a bit slower at than a typical player.

@Js-eq7yd 3 ай бұрын

One is actually playing the sport. One is just standing there using a loophole in the rules.

@lo1bo2 3 ай бұрын

Useless info: Dave Winfield wasn't a pitcher, but he accidentally killed a seagull with a throw in 1983.@@SmallSpoonBrigade

@bobbyman3211 3 ай бұрын

@@Js-eq7yd sounds like a pitcher skill issue

@NameSpaceVoid 3 ай бұрын

Exactly a little person can't even hit the ball or run the bases to any effect, where as 6' 7" is like the perfect height for an athlete. Everyone who upvoted this post has brain damage. @@Js-eq7yd

@dogwith4shoes 3 ай бұрын

"He never actually got to play, the team would just rub him for good luck before at bats." I was not expecting the end of that sentence

@InfamousMax 2 ай бұрын

like his paying was a hundred dollar, but the cake being even more expansive?

@jackfry 2 ай бұрын

Shit was crazy

@jibberism9910 Ай бұрын

@@jackfry But we all knew our place. Sigh.

@lmAIone Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@Aria432 17 сағат бұрын

Dwolfs looks so funni!

@112beastlyy 3 ай бұрын

Altuve must've slipped into the league unnoticed

@tomevers6670 3 ай бұрын

That’s messed up 😂

@flacogonz13 3 ай бұрын

And now look at him. 2x World Champ MVP .307 career batting avg 200+ career homers 200+ steals They never should've let him in 😭

@jacksonhayden1700 3 ай бұрын

So true

@jonathan__g 3 ай бұрын

I mean he is 5'6. While he is considered the shortest guy in the league the league just has a bunch of people that are probably closer to 6'0.

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

You could say he was overlooked

@limegreenelevator 3 ай бұрын

To add a bit onto Gaedel's story: Bob Cain, the Tigers pitcher, found the situation so unbelievable that (per Veeck) he "was laughing so hard that he could barely throw" after the first two pitches. Cain was also the only major leaguer to attend Gaedel's funeral.

@nomercyinc6783 3 ай бұрын

why would other mlb players go?

@Correa24bori 3 ай бұрын

@@nomercyinc6783why not?

@fouraztecas6342 3 ай бұрын

Discrimination ofc Reverse it now lol jk

@blazingbattlehawk9626 3 ай бұрын

@@Correa24boribecause funerals aren't open events

@Correa24bori 3 ай бұрын

@@blazingbattlehawk9626 doesn’t mean players can’t go to one.

@polkjmsb 2 ай бұрын

"He died 10 years later by getting beat up when leaving a bowling alley" Somehow the part of the video that made me want some elaboration the most

@davidlewisjr313 21 күн бұрын

Exactly he just moved on so fast. I did some more research and apparently the beating caused a heart attack after he crawled all the way back to his mothers home. Crawled in bed, and died that night. His mother found him the next morning. This is sad asf and just looked over.

@GetterRay 20 күн бұрын

@@davidlewisjr313 I don't blame him for looking it over, he'd have to tilt his head pretty far down.

@Jonathan-A.C. 15 күн бұрын

@@davidlewisjr313 Hope those murderers faced justice

@georgeaird4637 8 күн бұрын

@@Jonathan-A.C.I doubt it, a dwarf basically had zero rights back then. Some guys beat him to death because they thought it was funny and I doubt the police even cared to investigate it.

@ValdVincent 7 күн бұрын

@@georgeaird4637 It's a cold case, it's 1960's Chicago, they had more rights at the time then African Americans. The city at the time and still does have the largest crime rate in the world. I mean you've heard of Chiraqistan right?

@repeatatron1 3 ай бұрын

The part where it turned into a documentary about Bill Veeck was the funniest bit

@ASMRDoodlez 3 ай бұрын

Every morning Bill Veeck woke up, he said, "I have the greatest idea to sell more tickets!"

@nahometesfay1112 3 ай бұрын

That sounds like a Phineas and Ferb character

@Locksmith92 3 ай бұрын

Bro is a genius....

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

Unironically

@artie8561 3 ай бұрын

He is the ultimate youtUber before youtuber. He is very good

@gamingandwhatevs 2 ай бұрын

Now that's a guy who could actually get me to attend baseball games.

@Dudemandudeman19 3 ай бұрын

Even though baseball doesn’t exist, this channel still makes kick ass videos about it. Major skill

@BendyDH 3 ай бұрын

the man has created entire lore, a bunch of fictional characters, and hired numerous actors to film this footage, this is an insane amount of work for a fake sport

@Player_O1ne 3 ай бұрын

@@BendyDH A fake sport? implying that sport is real to begin with.

@user-br4tc6zr5t 2 ай бұрын

idk how i found u guys but hey are any of you real?@@Player_O1ne

@hullbreaker45 2 ай бұрын

@@Player_O1ne Saying " _sport_ " like it is a real word in english language is insane.

@timothyelmer5469 2 ай бұрын

@@hullbreaker45que es "English"?

@andrewbernard1911 3 ай бұрын

“They didn’t let him play they just rubbed him for good luck” made my day😂

@pi286 3 ай бұрын

I was very short growing up, I actually made the cities highest level of baseball team. I was on the team for 1 reason; to get walked and steal every base to home. I was one of the fastest guys and my strikezone was so small pitchers rarely struck me out. I played outfield and 2nd base.

@dejjoe345 3 ай бұрын

Eddie Gaedel's grandnephew nearly joined him in the majors. 6'3" OFer Kyle Gaedele was drafted in the 6th round of the 2011 MLB draft and made it to AA before flaming out. He still plays independent ball

@SUBMACHINEGOTH 3 ай бұрын

"A GOOD LUCK DWARF" god i love baseball so much

@SackTap69 3 ай бұрын

dwarves have been kept for good luck for thousands of years. lords would sometimes employ dwarves to their court so they could flex on everyone

@aamry 3 ай бұрын

Imagine being a full grown man (albeit, very small) and being held like a baby by a professional baseball player because "you're good luck"

@deesnutts4936 3 ай бұрын

@@aamryso dope

@SCP-Dr_Bright 2 ай бұрын

@@aamry i mean, if i liked the baseball player I'd do it. but maybe I'd feel different if i was 3'4

@JohannGambolputty22 2 ай бұрын

It would take a dwarf with mystical powers to convince the Yankees to hire a dwarf claiming to have mystical powers.

@Hakushodemon 2 ай бұрын

on my highschool soccer team my teammate was a dwarf who was extremely fast in a short sprint. we won many games together in which he was the one I was passing to so he could score which he did. was one of our top scorerers aswell as he could dribble and shoot very quickly.

@GizmoMaltese Ай бұрын

Dribble in soccer?

@finesseandstyle 22 күн бұрын

@@GizmoMaltese yes it exists

@HerMajestyVelvet 3 ай бұрын

Me telling my friend who’s an inch shorter then me that his baseball dream will never succeeed since hes banned

@moquilla1 3 ай бұрын

And you are how tall?

@HerMajestyVelvet 3 ай бұрын

@@moquilla1I haven’t checked in a while but I think I’m 5-9 or 5-10

@moquilla1 3 ай бұрын

@@HerMajestyVelvet I guess I don’t get the joke. Altuve is 5’6….why would your friend be banned?

@TheRandomBanana17 3 ай бұрын

@@moquilla1 it’s just a joke basically

@HerMajestyVelvet 3 ай бұрын

@@moquilla1it’s a joke about me making fun of my friend bc hes shorter then me

@justinking3127 3 ай бұрын

Another banger. Now it sounds like we need a whole video just for Bill Veeck

@stephencaudle1766 3 ай бұрын

I second this

@rafaelernestovazquez0831 3 ай бұрын

I third this

@Essman614 3 ай бұрын

4th

@concretebuilding 3 ай бұрын

There could be a whole series of videos on that man alone lol

@Ace_McBonin 3 ай бұрын

Watch The Saint of Second Chances

@DerekReznik 3 ай бұрын

3:55 I always love your runescape references.

@burnamaleik Ай бұрын

Aye you just gained a subscriber. MLB need to hire you at this point. You made baseball interesting for me. Never thought that would happen. 😂 this also helps me realize baseball got a lot of rules that need adjusting . The strike zone rule is crazy

@Xzile40 3 ай бұрын

He was beat to death outside of a bowling alley and then the next day they voided his contract and banned dwarves from playing? Thats some shady as hell shit right there.

@artemthetrain14 2 ай бұрын

No, they voided his contract the day after his at bat. He was killed a decade later.

@Xzile40 2 ай бұрын

@@artemthetrain14 ah guess i misunderstood it.

@artemthetrain14 2 ай бұрын

@@Xzile40 ya he said it weirdly tbh!

@tobermoryx3700 2 ай бұрын

Why would someone beat a dwarf to death

@icollectstories5702 2 ай бұрын

@@tobermoryx3700I assume for the same reasons they would beat anyone else to death. Is there something like a bowling hustler?

@b2rad 3 ай бұрын

The old school RuneScape lobster icon was a solid choice for that bit

@brendangordon1248 3 ай бұрын

Lol it was like an addiction trigger

@vincentflannigan2727 3 ай бұрын

Man us OSRS comunity must be dying cause just a few years ago the top comments would always be pointing out random bits in videos unrelated to runescape

@tappajaav 3 ай бұрын

@@vincentflannigan2727 People are staying in their lane

@decafcrack4596 3 ай бұрын

@@vincentflannigan2727 nah not dying just hit peak player count a few months ago

@chadsdadbrad 3 ай бұрын

And the text font as well!

@stueygewy 3 ай бұрын

3:56 Okay, I noticed that RuneScape '36' font and lobster! Smooth! 😛

@mostdope3178 7 күн бұрын

3:54 The Runescape lobster just took me way back. Thanks

@hattorihanzo2275 3 ай бұрын

Bill Veeck (as in 'Wreck') was a damned genius.

@dyingearth 3 ай бұрын

Mike Veeck his son was partially responsible for Disco Demolition Night fiasco. Steve Dahl, the local DJ was the other guy responsible for it.

@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii 3 ай бұрын

I was like, how is this gonna help? then oohh!

@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY 3 ай бұрын

The dude owned and I wish they made a movie about him.

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

@@DioBrandoWRYYYYYY In fact, he owned several teams

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

Great book

@miche1df 3 ай бұрын

This was basically my entire offensive strategy in Little League.

@DemonKingBadger 3 ай бұрын

I was better at pitching threw out my youth/high school, but yeah when I hit, I did take too many pitches, drew a lot of BBs (possibly 1/3 of my PAs).

@bluecollarmenproductions 3 ай бұрын

Me too but the ump was an idiot so it didn’t work

@burntoburn42 3 ай бұрын

Sometimes I forget this is my favorite channel on youtube.

@bigatman 3 ай бұрын

That RuneScape nod was a nice touch.

@Purple_Austin 3 ай бұрын

Babe wake up new Baseball Doesn’t Exist video.

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

I’m a simple man, I see Bill Veeck, I click

@DougBurgum4VP 3 ай бұрын

Very original comment

@thecatmanyes 3 ай бұрын

Fax

@AkumaAPN 3 ай бұрын

Babe Ruth wake up

@elchancho8432 3 ай бұрын

I’m up.

@brysonbyrne 3 ай бұрын

My buddy Mason played little league with me up until we got older and bigger….. but for those few years he was our #3 batter and I was our clean up. He would get walked EVERY TIME. and I was so fat we ran at the same speed 😂 I’ll never forget those legendary times

@MuNu_XiPi 3 ай бұрын

Bill Veeck is like real life TF2 character with the craziest antics.

@JuanitoK556 3 ай бұрын

This entire thing sounds like a premise of a movie starting Will Ferrel as Veeck haha.

@ivanih7 3 ай бұрын

The first little person on the video is a batboy/team assistant for the aguilas de mexicali in the mexican pacific league. Hes a well known legend in Mexico. They call him “Chevale”👏 👏 He made it to @baseballDoesntExist, took his legendary status to another level🚀

@zerotwoisreal 3 ай бұрын

the word is midget

@SBDdauntless 2 ай бұрын

“Little person” is so much worse than dwarf 😂

@littlemonztergaming8665 2 ай бұрын

@@SBDdauntless Nah, organizations that support them go by titles like: "Little People of America" (LPA). Same as a "Trans person" or "Black person". But I get where you're coming from, I could see a lot of people getting offended at the title, "Big person".

@MikeCee7 2 ай бұрын

What is this little guy wearing under his uniform. 1:06 Is he wearing like 10 bulletproof vest? Or is he wearing 3 water life preservers vests?

@carsoncomplains 3 ай бұрын

Multiple teams having a little person for luck purposes is my favorite MLB fun fact

@DemonKingBadger 3 ай бұрын

See Charlie "Victory" Faust for deadball era good luck charms. Actually got into a couple games. I think he does have a SABR page.

@BryanChance 3 ай бұрын

What do you mean? like a rabbits foot or something?

@jeanocasio5432 2 ай бұрын

@@BryanChanceI believe so.

@Cookieboymonster1962 3 ай бұрын

Veeck apparently told Eddie to take his stance at the plate and then yell out to the pitcher, "Chuck it in here and i'll moider it!"

@Dave42069 3 ай бұрын

Im not even a massive baseball fan, but your vids are always an amazing watch.

@Luke_Skyraptor 3 ай бұрын

Bridgeport Bluefish, who no longer exist, was the team, was the team from the Atlantic League you mentioned. The players name was Colin Buckingham.

@thomasmcnamara3232 3 ай бұрын

I grew up going to Bluefish games, miss the team!

@mikeCD62 3 ай бұрын

A couple things 1. The most common phenotype of dwarfism results in a relatively normal torso length and short legs. 2. It seems possible to me that a little person could be good enough at baseball that they could contribute in ways besides getting walked. The fastest little people in the world can run 100m in under 15 seconds. Thats definitely slow by mlb standards but not unheard of. Dwarfism has an incidence of 1/25000, so there are around 15000 little people in the united states, including about 2000 men in or near their athletic prime. Extend that to the whole world and you get around 40000 eligible little people. Remember, they dont need to be mlb caliber in their skills, they would just need to be good enough that they arent completely useless on the field-- good enough that the advantages they bring outweigh the deficits in "traditional" baseball performance

@Sniperboy5551 2 ай бұрын

I guess with odds like those, it’s really weird that I grew up next to a dwarf. She invited us to a local dwarfism awareness thing and there were plenty of little people there.

@thomasstone3480 2 ай бұрын

it also feels like it would be less ugly and demeaning to hire a little person who was expected to like... play? like, i think the whole thing comes off a lot less freak show if you're like 'look this person has a tiny strike zone but also will bunt sometimes' or whatever

@bennylevine387 2 ай бұрын

I hear you, but we're talking about the big leagues, so how would a dwarf be good at any aspect of baseball to the level where he'd be serviceable in any other facet than to be walked? Anyone deficient on the basepaths generally makes up for it in power, which enables them to avoid baserunning more. So you get a dwarf who never gets past first now having to run all those bases and it'd have to be at the DH position because you won't find one who wouldn't be a total liability defensively on a MLB team. Like you'd have to have the top superstar athlete dwarf to even think about this working and even then, it's not that inspiring of a proposition.

@mikeCD62 2 ай бұрын

@bennylevine387 my point is that, if they could consistently get walked, they wouldn't have to be "MLB good" in order to provide net utility to their team with multiple at bats per game as a DH. A 15 second 100m is fairly slow by mlb standards but not out of place, and the disadvantages in speed conferred by short legs would be of lower relevance since baserunning is more about acceleration than top end speed.

@bennylevine387 2 ай бұрын

@@mikeCD62 Yeah, I'm not even disagreeing. I don't think anyone could wrap their head around all the possibilities. Or if maybe it'd be better just to have one in a pinch-hitting capacity to get that walk under optimal conditions, rather than letting the dwarf run bases or have to slide, which I'm not sure they can do proficiently. And I'd be interested where they're holding dwarf track meets to where you can quote times. Or if they need that first length of distance to get rolling and their base-running wouldn't translate. An interesting thing to ponder though to be sure.

@seanzibonanzi64 3 ай бұрын

Okay, the "fans as managers for a game" one is genius. That'd be so cool to do today with an app, I think it'd be a hit.

@BlisaBLisa 3 ай бұрын

fr why dont pro sports do fun stuff like that occasionally

@mnbgt101 2 ай бұрын

3:57 this man pioneered "twitch chat plays" decades before the internet was invented

@beamo1220 3 ай бұрын

The easy fix is to make a minimum height of the strikezone.

@The_Taken_Names 3 ай бұрын

You mean make a rule that specifically gives a disadvantage to players below a certain height? I'm not sure the ada would be much happier with that. It would probably have to be a universal strike zone to make them happier. But I think it's more likely they would get rid of the DH and add stipulations around pinch hitters requiring them to field an inning.

@bobbygetsbanned6049 3 ай бұрын

@@The_Taken_Names It's not a disadvantage, they'd still have the smallest possible strike zone compared to larger players with way bigger strike zones.

@djii7837 3 ай бұрын

@@d_mb I think that's the point. The rule wouldn't be discriminatory because it applies to everyone, it just would facilitate that people who cannot fit the strike zone wouldn't be considered skilled enough to play. Same way with the NBA hoop height, MLB base size, size of a baseball, etc. Applies to everyone, regardless of physical ability.

@OmniBui 3 ай бұрын

@@djii7837 i think this is right, not a lawyer, but the case against it would be does it apply more to a few than to all the others. like let's say it's a 1ft x 1ft min for the aruguement, if the only people that the minimum applies to, are little people/ dwarfs, then it could still be effectively discriminatory which would still be a litigious issue. a minimum height that the strike zone boundaries can be at might be better than a minimum area of the strikezone, which i think is what y'all are saying now and i'm misreading this. oh well

@kevinmoynihan5118 3 ай бұрын

@@OmniBui There could also be a case raised if someone challenged the ban, that an individual is not “otherwise qualified” to be an MLB player if the only thing that makes them attractive to an MLB team is the fact that they are so short they could likely walk an insanely high amount of the time. The ability to actually hit, field, and throw would likely be considered essential functions of the job. Even if that’s not the case there would also be a case from a safety standpoint although I think that would be even more complicated.

@robausman5248 3 ай бұрын

the runescape lobster pic just made my day love your videos bro keep em coming!

@LeaminOwnsAll 3 ай бұрын

Had to come to the comments to make sure someone else caught it too. Selling lobbies btw

@ProfRenderer 3 ай бұрын

Now if only that was 73 lobsters

@nathanpearson2702 3 ай бұрын

Loved this 😂

@benn454 3 ай бұрын

@@LeaminOwnsAllhow much for 28? going to wildy

@salvatorepulcrano9005 3 ай бұрын

4:16 Disco Demolition Night was an idea envisioned by his son and a local Chicago DJ. Bill Veeck approved the idea however. Also, Bill Veeck’s wife conceived the idea that ball players wore shorts instead of pants. It lasted one season and players wore them for a couple of games.

@neverhit17 3 ай бұрын

2:47 I'm curious, the Yankees rubbed the dwarf for good luck, was it any particular part of his body?

@ryancrowley9397 3 ай бұрын

Santa doesn’t want his elves to be slacking off

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is just an allegory for the antebellum American South, of course

@Carlos_Aguilarr 3 ай бұрын

Bro😭🙏😭

@nathangraves4318 3 ай бұрын

I love you pacing and storytelling. I wish you could do every video of interest I watch.

@knowyourenemies7 21 күн бұрын

The story of Ed Gaedel was one of my dad’s favorite anecdotes to tell. You nailed it all the way down to the high powered rifle.

@kenstonm1346 2 ай бұрын

Make more vids baseball season is coming up and you’re the one that got me into the sport.

@AZYugiohVillage 3 ай бұрын

I don’t know if it was intentional or not but this is your shortest video 😂

@SportSpark22 3 ай бұрын

The best creator on youtube strikes again!

@vintageswiss9096 2 ай бұрын

I absolutely love that owner. Dude was the WWE Attitude Era of the MLB. He gave us so much stuff we still see in the game, but is only known for his failed antics...

@saifojio2259 2 ай бұрын

This was one of the wildest videos ive seen in a while, from mystical dwarfs to a dude with a wooden leg with an ash tray wtf

@Lesposito25 3 ай бұрын

The small shohei 💀💀💀💀 1:37

@patrickspahn9501 3 ай бұрын

Jose altuve still plays

@captainphoenix 3 ай бұрын

OMG That Altuve joike at the end was brilliant.

@SimchaKaplun 3 ай бұрын

Great video! Would you consider making a video on the Steinbrenner vs Dave Winfield saga?

@SedraShelova-cc3dx 3 ай бұрын

Love your unique style, never change!

@paulk6399 3 ай бұрын

Just a totally normal comment not made by a bot.

@Lachronix 3 ай бұрын

wild. can't believe i never thought of that.

@boxicknowsbest9100 3 ай бұрын

Talk about short stop

@davidlejenkins Ай бұрын

Bro didn't have to do 'em like that.

@6629131 3 ай бұрын

The old school RuneScape animation lobster was too good

@Ticklestein 3 ай бұрын

Most enticing video title I have seen in a long long time.

@steveboston5948 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely brilliant video! I knew some of the Bill Veeck stories, including the midget batter, the lobster giveaway, the wooden leg ashtray, and disco demolition night. I didn't know about the outfield wall being moved between home and away batters. And didn't know about the crouching batter stance rule. This has been a fun and enlightening 9 minutes. 👍👍

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

His memoir is full of such stories, “Veeck as in Wreck”

@lalomalo8052 2 ай бұрын

Would've never guessed this video would be this interesting. Well put together video 👏

@drewcanum 2 ай бұрын

“So they would just rub him, for good luck, before at-bats.” is crrrraaaazyyyyyy😂😂😂

@seanbrady2232 3 ай бұрын

So the ADA prevents discrimination based off a disability (I.e. dwarfism) but there are workarounds that would essentially do the same thing based off “required job functions”. The MLB would probably claim they have a minimum height requirement for safety, faithful execution of ump job functions, and potential undue economic impact that upsetting the meta of the game would cause, all of which are pretty standard objections to the ADA.

@SoulDelSol Ай бұрын

Disabled people have their own leagues or divisions, eg wheelchair basketball and wheelchair bodybuilding or special Olympics. They don't join into regular divisions

@shivumganesh 3 ай бұрын

This is even crazier than not allowing Barry Bonds to play without a bat.

@SoulDelSol Ай бұрын

What would he hit ball with. His teeth

@thetimebinder 22 күн бұрын

@@SoulDelSolHe wouldn't swing at all.

@MZRFaith 3 ай бұрын

Informative and to the point, thank you

@n1c98 2 ай бұрын

Let the people have their shining moment due to their height. We don't ban 7 foot 5 giants in basketball. Come on

@jbean9564 3 ай бұрын

How you think altuve feels

@AstrosPlug 3 ай бұрын

pretty happy knowing he has 2 ws rings.

@jamesesterline 3 ай бұрын

3:46 Satchel Paige also played in 5 decades

@DavidMcdonald-df8tb 2 ай бұрын

He played professional baseball for 5 decades but not in the MLB

@user-ez5nh3yz1u 3 ай бұрын

Im fairly certain most major league pitchers nowadays wouldn't have any problem hitting a dwarf's strike zone. Especially if he was specifically instructed never to swing because all the pitcher would need to worry about is control. No secondary pitches, no high velo, nothing. If Spencer Strider can put a 100mph fastball in the upper outside quadrant of a normal batter's zone he can put a casual 88mph fastball somewhere in a the zone of a guy who is 110cm.

@DemonKingBadger 3 ай бұрын

I don't think too many more pitchers back then would have necessarily had a hard time, to be fair. Bob Cain gave up 95 BBs in 175 innings in 1951. So, he did have below average control.

@DemonKingBadger 3 ай бұрын

My dad and me talked about Gaedel and what if someone tried it again. One thing my dad mentioned was what if the pitcher starts throwing at the little guy, for someone not experienced with rhis at all, with no athleticism, 95 mph coming at you might change your mind quick. Another problem we mentioned was it would be needed to be a DH likely, and you also just used up a bench spot in the 1st inning when benches are smaller today with all the pitchers on the roster.

@justayoutuber1906 2 ай бұрын

My dad and I....

@diseasedworm9209 Ай бұрын

@@justayoutuber1906 nerd

@Franyza 2 ай бұрын

I’m high asf I was not expecting that shit at 2:15💀💀💀💀💀

@_CJCJ. 2 ай бұрын

😂

@CincyMetalDrummer 3 ай бұрын

I am cackling over the tiny Elly De La Cruz 🤣

@stevencamp69 3 ай бұрын

holy crap no way did you just pull the lobby from rs xD i thought i loved this channel before but wow man that was a nice touch!!!!!

@agentbobbarker 3 ай бұрын

the runescape lobster killed me lol

@Hilbrandi 3 ай бұрын

2:58 Nelson De La Rosa (RIP) wasn't just a very little man... At one time he was the world's shortest human, as certified by Guinness World Records.

@user-os6ps1ls3s 3 ай бұрын

Good ol lil Pete as they called him on Red Sox land loved that guy

@DemonKingBadger 3 ай бұрын

He was also in the Marlon Brando remake of the Island of Dr. Moreau (and probably the only good reason to watch it)

@UglyApprentice 3 ай бұрын

Having the number 1/8 is crazy 🤣

@BadgerOff32 13 күн бұрын

Hearing him describe all those crazy stunts and promotions that owner kept pulling off reminded me of the Will Ferrell movie 'Semi Pro' where he's constantly doing crazy stuff to try and get more fans in. I wonder if that guy was actually the inspiration for Ferrells character in that film?

@danielkerber8667 3 ай бұрын

My first thought when it was said 1951 its gotta be Bill Veck being involved 20 seconds later Bill Veck name came up. Gotta love consistency of shinanigans he is involved in.

@lazcoroner1483 3 ай бұрын

So how is Jose Altuve still in the league..?

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

Because he’s a great player?

@lazcoroner1483 3 ай бұрын

@@warlordofbritannia You must be a JOY to be around..

@warlordofbritannia 3 ай бұрын

@@lazcoroner1483 Oh…yeah wow I…there’s no excuse, I deserve a wooosh 😂

@kingyellowman5762 3 ай бұрын

Poor altuve is finally going to get banned?

@mondoseguendo6113 3 ай бұрын

I bet he’s using lifts.

@jimmyzhao2673 4 күн бұрын

Bill Veeck sure had a lot of fun. Something sorely lacking these days in professional sports.

@Killdroid96 2 ай бұрын

Rewatching this for the second time, I can’t believe I missed the RuneScape reference with the lobsters and the chat font on screen my first time watching it.

@Cheneymlb 3 ай бұрын

This would all be so cool... if baseball existed

@Ghostscommentarys 3 ай бұрын

I hit the ball twice in eight years playing baseball, so my baseball coach made me lunge. I walked 75% of the season. We went undefeated Edit: I’m 5’11” my shoulders were about 7 inches from my knees.

@Nilphinho 3 ай бұрын

Didnt think id see my local York Revolution on BDE when i woke up today.

@WhatinDetailNationOG 3 ай бұрын

I live in York PA - the revs stadium is literally in my back yard and I had no idea about this.

@raysinterweb 3 ай бұрын

He just called a little person an “it” on 7:06

@user-ix9lx4sp1z 2 ай бұрын

No he didn't? Are you high?

@user-qv3xs1li1s 2 ай бұрын

@@user-ix9lx4sp1z you can hear where the audio clips where he later edited it, bucko :P

@OfficialFishyGamer Ай бұрын

In an alternate universe, baseball has evolved into a sport where two teams of little people parade in endless, walk driven loops around the diamond. A single strike is now an out, and the games last days, sometimes even weeks.

@dinosatay Ай бұрын

4:00 bro really said "chat is this real?" irl

@discopants68 3 ай бұрын

Bill Veeck is legendary. I remember his crazy ideas and promotions having grown up in Chicago in the 70s. Note to creator: the background noise is maddening.