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Old 10-18-2014, 10:38 AM   #46
GrimmyDee
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Originally Posted by Husky417 View Post
Great touch with the milestones! Pud Galvin looks like a guy you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
The main reason I listed them like that is I wanted them to be more than a name. It "forced" me to do some research on each of them, for which I am thankful.

Funny you should mention Pud, as he is known for being the "first baseball player to be known for using a performance enhancer", that being the Brown-Sequard elixir which contained monkey testosterone, distilled from - you guessed it - monkey testicles.

He did that for one game in 1889.

Apparently, he also had the habit of covering his entire body in a protective layer of zinc.
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