this is my favorite wikipedia page PLEASE read it
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Okay time to give it a read
Lawsonomy sounds like a weird neologism to even consider bringing into this world
bro had a 6.63 ERA in the dead ball era
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thank you for pointing this out for me it makes everything that happens after that even fucking funnier
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It’s important to be a guy who is dogshit at baseball. Nobody talks about how crucial this role in society is
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MEEEEE
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also, I should mention that his brother made a living by going around the country, founding baseball leagues, then running away with all the money, until he eventually settled down and became a KKK-alligned evangelical preacher, before pivoting to become an anti-KKK evangelical preacher
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Alfred and George Lawson, two Guys we will never see the likes of again, though we might come close.
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I could be a Guy
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while looking up the home run leaders to make a point (the 1890 home run leader has 14 home runs btw) I found out the second place finisher in home runs for the 1890 season was named oyster burns
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people don’t name their kids oyster anymore and i’m disappointed
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Oyster burns? I sure hope it does! (I am not too big on oyster)
i have too many hom,ones
look at this shit. it gets worse and worse the more you look at it
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apparently he first played for the wilmingon quicksteps, a team that i never even knew existed
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There’s gotta be at least one person who’s named themselves “oyster” after a Tumblr joke regarding nonbinary people and oysters