Oh, you just can NOT make this up.
May. 21st, 2004 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularCourtesy of MLB.com -
"Of all the game's documented, rather than apocryphal, self-inflicted injuries, the prize may go to Clarence 'Climax' Blethen. A 30-year-old Red Sox rookie, Blethen thought that he looked older and meaner if he took out his false teeth when he pitched and kept them in his hip pocket. Yes, he forgot to put them back in his mouth. So, on Sept. 21, 1923, while sliding into second base to break up a double play, Climax Blethen bit himself in the butt."
-- Thomas Boswell in the Washington Post.
"Of all the game's documented, rather than apocryphal, self-inflicted injuries, the prize may go to Clarence 'Climax' Blethen. A 30-year-old Red Sox rookie, Blethen thought that he looked older and meaner if he took out his false teeth when he pitched and kept them in his hip pocket. Yes, he forgot to put them back in his mouth. So, on Sept. 21, 1923, while sliding into second base to break up a double play, Climax Blethen bit himself in the butt."
-- Thomas Boswell in the Washington Post.
