Jose Altuve
Jose Altuve
Flashback: Gaedel pinch hits for Browns in Veeck stunt
Published
Aug. 19, 2015 2:26 p.m. ET
Chris Bahr
If you thought Jose Altuve and Dustin Pedroia were short . . .
On this date in 1951, the 3-foot-7, 65-pound Eddie Gaedel pinch hit for the St. Louis Browns. He wore No. 1/8.
If it sounds like a crazy gimmick, that's because it was -- and Browns owner (and infamous showman) Bill Veeck was behind it.
The 26-year-old Gaedel walked on four pitches, was replaced by a pinch-runner and never got another at-bat. But he did get his own baseball-reference page.
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