Baseball's Weirdest Hall of Famer

He was the best pitcher Major League Baseball ever saw, but he would often walk off the pitch mid-game to go fishing. He was a star actor, but he could never remember his lines. On multiple occasions, he saved people from burning buildings, to the chagrin of actual firefighters. He wrestled alligators, literally killed two birds with one stone, was nearly fired for eating animal crackers in bed, may have been involved in a conspiracy to fix the World Series, and saved an entire Kentucky town from a flood. And he was autistic. This late-19th-century baseball player may have been the closest thing there is to a real-life Forrest Gump. What’s the best thing Rube never did? Enter a Rube Waddell lookalike contest and lose -   / membership   Start fires so he could put them out - https://x.com/parsons_tor Switch sports mid-game and start tackling his opponents -   / mrsluds   Began a magazine about weird true stories called Rube’s Cabinet of Curiosities -   / tor.in.oregon   Most of this video's stories are sourced from the book “Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist” by Alon Levy, ISBN 978-0-7864-0786-6. The investigation into Rube-related World Series chicanery was done by Steven A. King for the Society For American Baseball Research. Just a few more videos until the audio quality starts improving, promise!