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Earl Yingling
Newspapers across the nation carried a story in 1908 about a young lady who proclaimed to the handsome, square-jawed, southpaw pitcher of the Dayton Vets, “If you strike him out, I’ll marry you.” The pitcher was Earl Yingling, in his second year of professional ball, the young lady was Georgeana Florine Sausser from Lebanon, Ohio. Whether the event actually occurred is irrelevant, it made great press, even finding its way into Sporting Life. - SABR
In the majors, he went 25-34 over five years with a career 3.22 ERA. He would later fall through a crack in time, emerging as an actor in the 2010's performing such roles as Elliot in "Mr. Robot" and the villain in the current James Bond movie. Seriously, tell me he isn't a spitting image of Rami Malek.
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