On C.S.I Miami tonight some dude said that Fidel Castro tried out for the Reds in the 1940's. Can anyone confirm that? I thought it was interesting. Who knows what would have happened if the Reds would have signed him.
On C.S.I Miami tonight some dude said that Fidel Castro tried out for the Reds in the 1940's. Can anyone confirm that? I thought it was interesting. Who knows what would have happened if the Reds would have signed him.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
Imagine how different the world would be if he was a Red.
Didn't the Reds stop calling themseleves the Reds during the late 40's and 50's because of the Communist conotations?
"Sometimes, it's not the sexiest moves that put you over the top," Krivsky said. "It's a series of transactions that help you get there."
Isn't that when they became the redlegs?
It is.
Ages ago, I read a baseball book which consisted of various short stories (Alibi Ike) and real-life stories.
One was written by a major leaguer, whose name I cannot recall right now.
I am going by memory here, but I seem to recall that the major leaguer was playing in Cuba, where a series of Cuban revolutionaries were in attendence.
One was Castro, who grabbed a bat in the middle of the game and attempted a few swings at the plate. I say "attempted," because the writer described Castro's performance as humorous and pathetic. From what he described, Castro had none-the-talent to be considered for a major league career.
Along those same lines... many might be famaliar with this, but for those who do not know:
Randy "Macho Man" Savage
Born in Columbus, Ohio (Nov. 1952), Randy Poffo was a minor league baseball catcher in the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago White Sox farm systems prior to his wrestling career. He injured his natural (right) throwing shoulder at one point so he learned to throw with his left arm instead.
He is a second-generation professional wrestler; his father Angelo Poffo was a well-known wrestler in the 1950s and 1960s, who was featured in Ripley's Believe it or Not for his ability to do sit-ups for hours on end. Randy's brother Lanny had a moderately successful career as a wrestler too most notably under the names "Leaping Lanny Poffo" and "The Genius".
Randy first broke into the business in the early 1970's during the fall and winter of the baseball off season. When he decided to abandon his baseball career he became a full time wrestler working with his brother and father.
Bonesaw's the man
Castro would be managing right now, perhaps.....
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