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	Eddie Gaedel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Carl "Eddie" Gaedel (June 8, 1925 - June 18, 1961), born in Chicago, Illinois, was an American dwarf who became famous for participating in a Major League Baseball game.
		When Gaedel hinted that he might be tempted to swing at a pitch, Veeck promised to station a sniper in the stands.
		Gaedel is mentioned in Terry Cashman's song homage to 1950's baseball, "Willie, Mickey, and the Duke".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eddie_Gaedel (375 words)

	Eddie Gaedel Obituary
		Gaedel's face after his body was discovered in the bedroom of his South Side apartment Sunday.
		Gaedel made baseball history on August 19, 1951, when he popped out of a huge cake set up in Sportsman's Park in St. Louis as part of a between games show of a St. Louis doubleheader.
		Gaedel, who was 3 feet 7 inches tall, was allowed to bat for the St. Louis Browns when he produced a contract signed by Bill Veeck, then president of the club.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /deaths/eddie_gaedel_obituary.shtml (306 words)

	JDM \| Gaedel
		Gaedel expanded to 12 teams for the 2001 season and owners now compete in three divisions (Pete Gray, Moonlight Graham, Bert Shepard) with names in the Gaedel theme.
		Eddie Gaedel Edward Carl Gaedel (guh-DELL) was the centrepiece of Bill Veeck's (Veeck as in Wreck he would say) best remembered stunt.
		Eddie -- in a borrowed uniform (made for the son of one of the owners) -- and a toy bat, faced Detroit lefthander Bob Cain.
	www.attheplate.com /gaedel.htm (225 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gaedel was wearing a tiny St. Louis uniform that belonged to nine-year-old Bill DeWitt, Jr., the son of the team's vice president.
		Eddie Gaedel's contract may not have been in the best interests of baseball, but there is no doubt that it was a valid agreement.
		Gaedel was to play for the St. Louis Browns and, in return, would receive $100 each day.
	www.clubhouselawyer.com /contracts1.htm (379 words)

	Bill Veeck
		The Eddie Gaedel stunt: In 1951, Bill Veeck bought the moribund St. Louis Browns - the year that the American League was celebrating it's 50th birthday.
		One of his gimmicks involved Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" 65-pound midget, who was sent in to lead off the second game of a double-header against the Detroit Tigers on August 19, 1951, by which time the Browns were 36 games out.
		Gaedel and three other midgets, all dressed as Martians, dropped from the sky and "captured" the White Sox tiny double-play combination of Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio, who would finish one-two in AL MVP voting that year.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /HOF/Veeck.html (1564 words)

	The Three Foot High Hitter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After locating Gaedel in Chicago, Veeck and his confederates trained the midget, who knew nothing about baseball except that you bit the ball with the bat and ran like you were escaping the Valley of the jolly Green Giant.
		Gaedel never got a chance to gain immortality with a mighty Ruthian blast, for ball 3 and ball 4 were so high they wouldn't have been strikes on Wilt Chamberlain.
		The Times did acknowledge, however, that Eddie Gaedel was the only midget ever to play in the major leagues, and no midget, it is certain, will again step up to bat in a big league baseball game.
	www.allaboutstuff.com /sports_phrases/THE_THREE_FOOT_HIGH_HITTER.asp (1397 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - Short on size, long on history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Instead, he became a footnote to history on Aug. 19, 1951 as the player who was replaced by 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel, the shortest player ever to play in the major leagues.
		"Eddie, you'll be the only midget in the history of the game," Veeck, in his autobiography, "Veeck as in Wreck," recalled telling Gaedel.
		For more on Eddie Gaedel's historic plate appearance, and to learn the story of his tragic life, tune in to ESPN's "Outside the Lines" this Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
	espn.go.com /mlb/s/2001/0816/1240553.html (1530 words)

	Eddie Gaedel Tribute by Jeffrey Sward
		Eddie Gaedel was catapulted into baseball immortality in 1951 by imaginative manager Bill Veeck of the St. Louis Browns.
		Gaedel was subsequently replaced by a pinch runner.
		One day after the Eddie Gaedel event, a minimum height requirement was enacted in major league baseball.
	www.jeffreysward.com /tributes/eddieg.htm (269 words)

	Eddie Gaedel -- Short appearance in baseball
		When the cake popped open, out popped Eddie Gaedel, all 3-foot-7-inches of him, in a Browns uniform complete with the number, 1/8.
		Gaedel stood at the plate and, with his miniscule strike zone, he was walked in four pitches by Tigers pitcher Bob Cain who was overcome with laughter.
		As Gaedel made his way to first base, accounts tell of him stopping to tip his hat to the fans.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/g/gaedel_eddie.html (427 words)

	Eddie Gaedel - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edward Carl "Eddie" Gaedel (June 8, 1925 - June 18, 1961), born in Chicago, Illinois, was an American of diminutive stature who was noted for participating in a Major League Baseball game.
		Louis Browns and put in uniform as a publicity stunt by Browns owner and showman Bill Veeck.
		With Bob Cain on the mound, Gaedel crouched with bat in hand.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Eddie_Gaedel (314 words)

	The Baseball Reliquary - Eddie Gaedel
		While the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum houses Eddie Gaedel’s jersey, with the number 1/8 stitched on its backside, the Baseball Reliquary maintains the athletic supporter worn to the plate by Gaedel during his historic at-bat.
		Other Eddie Gaedel artifacts in the Reliquary’s permanent collections are a miniature trophy presented to him by the Falstaff Brewery, radio sponsor of the St. Louis Browns, and a letter written by Gaedel in 1959, just two years prior to his death.
		This miniature trophy was inscribed to Eddie Gaedel and presented to him by the Falstaff Brewery, radio sponsor of the St. Louis Browns.
	www.baseballreliquary.org /Gaedel.htm (373 words)

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		Gaedel was announced as a pinch hitter for the Browns leadoff hitter Frank Saucier.
		Gaedel stood at the plate in a Brown's uniform (in elf shoes) wearing the number 1/8.
		Gaedel patted Delsing on the rump, waved to the cheering crowd and returned to the dugout.
	www.top-greetings.com /A.py?R=20030330,0SY1 (224 words)

	Eddie Gaedel - BR Bullpen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eddie Gaedel was the shortest and lightest man to ever play a major league inning.
		Gaedel scampered off to first base, where he was replaced by a pinch runner, before waddling up the dugout tunnel and back into the oblivion from whence he came.
		Gaedel died after being beaten in a bar fight in 1961.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Eddie_Gaedel (155 words)

	Veeck's famous stunted stunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eddie Gaedel, standing 3-feet, 6-inches, was used as a pinch hitter by eccentric St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck in August 1951.
		Gaedel got an ovation from the crowd as he gave way to a pinch-runner, never to make a major league appearance again.
		In his down years, Gaedel took to drinking and once he was taken into protective custody by the police.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20000901/SP_002.htm (579 words)

	ESPN Classic - Midget Gaedel walks in only MLB appearance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eddie Gaedel, all of 3-foot-7, pops out of a giant-sized cake and a few minutes later is sent up to pinch-hit for the Browns' leadoff hitter in the home first inning in the second game of a doubleheader against Detroit.
		When "No. 1/8, Eddie Gaedel, batting for Saucier" is announced over the loudspeaker, home-plate umpire Ed Hurley points to the Browns dugout.
		Replaced by a pinch-runner, Gaedel bows and doffs his cap repeatedly, to the delight of a paid crowd of 18,369.
	espn.go.com /classic/s/moment010819-gaedel-midget.html (229 words)

	Bill Veeck, Veeck--As In Wreck, excerpt
		Eddie was holding his bat in one hand and, at that stage of the proceedings, he was wearing little slippers turned up at the end like elf's shoes.
		Gaedel, little ham that he was, had not gone into the crouch I had spent so many hours teaching him.
		Eddie and three other midgets, all dressed in regimental Martian clothing (gold helmets and shoes, coveralls, oxygen tanks), somehow dropped out of the heavens in a helicopter and landed directly behind second base.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/852180.html (5989 words)

	BackWhen.com - Where Are They Now?
		Eddie walked on four pitches, but the Browns lost 6-2 anyway.
		Years later, when Lou Gehrig gave his" I am the luckiest man alive" speech in Yankee stadium, he was given Eddie's jersey as a momento.
		And when Eddie died in 1961, his obituary made the front page of the NY Times, an honor usually reserved for statesman.
	backwhen.com /whereare.asp?WhereID=64 (282 words)

	The Birthday Party
		Eddie quietly entered town, and was given a baseball uniform owned by the small son of Browns vice-president, Bill DeWitt.
		Eddie, however, had been told by Veeck to crouch low, and that a sniper was on the roof ready to shoot if the mini-bat moved off his shoulder.
		Eddie Gaedel - The midget: Following his pitch-hit caper Eddie never had trouble with bookings, and was often hired by Veeck for additional stunts.
	www.chatterfromthedugout.com /birthday_party.htm (1767 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Outside the Lines: At Bat - Eddie Gaedel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gayle Esposito, Eddie Gaedel's niece - He was a happy-go-lucky guy on the outside, but I think he was really sort of crying on the inside.
		Richard Czub, Eddie Gaedel's first cousin - He liked to be around people that would admire him, and people that went into a midget bar were not normally midgets, just the bartenders.
		But the fact is that Eddie was told that there was an ought-30 aimed right at his forehead if he were to take the bat off his shoulder, which, of course, could turn this -- a pretty good gag into a disastrous event, shall we say.
	sports.espn.go.com /page2/tvlistings/show73transcript.html (4110 words)

	Dark Bilious Vapors
		Gaedel was put inside a cake, and of course did the traditional "out of the cake routine", as Veeck told the crowd that he was giving Taylor "his very own little Brownie".
		After showing the umpire the contract, the ump ruled that Gaedel was, indeed, a legally signed player, and he was told to take his position in the batter's box.
		Gaedel walked on four straight pitches (Detroit pitcher Bob Cain was a good sport about the situation, though he could barely stop laughing while pitching to Gaedel), and was then lifted for pinch-runner Jim Delsing.
	www.cleavelin.net /0405archives/00000682.htm (877 words)

	Before Their Time
		Eddie was the 3’7” midget who was sent to bat by promoter and St. Louis Browns team owner Bill Veeck in a 1951 game between the Browns and Detroit Tigers.
		Ten years later little Eddie was beaten by a mugger on a Chicago street, but made it back to his home where he died of a heart attack at the age of 36.
		Eddie Grant was the first Major League player to die in combat, and the only one to lose his life in World World I.
	www.chatterfromthedugout.com /before_their_time.htm (2566 words)

	One-day wonders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His career ended two days later -- baseball's hierarchy was just as humorless then as it is now -- but the name of Eddie Gaedel still brings a smile to the face of any longtime baseball fan.
		Two days later against Detroit, Gaedel made his appearance, first popping out of a giant cake that had been wheeled to home plate, then, wearing his little Browns uniform with No. on the back and carrying a miniature bat, stepping in against Tiger pitcher Bob Cain.
		Right field: Gaedel and Graham may be the best-known of the players who had just one appearance.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/sports/bb/98/03/15/bbo.owl-0.html (2003 words)

	Eddie Gaedel \| BaseballLibrary.com
		In the bottom of the first, St. Louis manager Zach Taylor sent Gaedel to the plate to pinch hit for Frank Saucier.
		Detroit skipper Red Rolfe protested Gaedel's presence, but Taylor produced a legitimate contract, filed with the AL and cleared by umpire Ed Hurley.
		Gaedel was paid $100 for his appearance, and was insured for $1 million by Veeck.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/G/Gaedel_Eddie.stm (464 words)

	Eddie Gaedel Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Eddie Gaedel was born on Monday, June 8, 1925, in Chicago, Illinois.
		Gaedel was 26 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 19, 1951, with the St. Louis Browns.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Eddie Gaedel baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=gaedeed01 (318 words)

	Dis is BEDBUG EDDIE's 'hood!
		Eddie Cochran was known for such rock n' roll classics as "20 Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", "Cut Across Shorty" and "Jeanie Jeanie Jeanie".
		Gaedel, who was the only midget to ever play pro baseball, had one at bat, drew a walk on four pitches and was replaced by a pinch runner.
		Running back Eddie George was NFL player of the year in 1997 and has been named to the Peo Bowl four times.
	www.bedbugeddie.com /famous.php (635 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eddie was a 3'7" midget from Chicago's South Side, and a big hit with the St. Louis crowd.
		Bob Cain, the Tigers' pitcher, was laughing so hard that he walked Gaedel on four straight pitches; this probably wasn't his fault, though, because Big Eddie's strike zone was only one and a half inches high.
		So here's to you, Eddie Gaedel: you made it possible--well, we're not sure exactly what you did, except stand at the plate looking tough.
	www.brainevent.com /be/be/WackyWeek/twwis/20010820/show_article_then_toc (898 words)

	Netsports Community Forums - shortest
		Eddie Gaedel who 3'7 and weighed like 60 pounds haha.
		Gaedel stood three feet, seven inches tall, and he walked on four pitches.
		After the game, American League president Will Harridge voided Gaedel's contract, and decreed that no midget should again be allowed to play in a major league game.
	forums.netsports.com /showthread.php?postid=622349 (630 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Detroit manager tried to protest, but Veeck showed the ump a signed contract (he reportedly paid Gaedel $100) so there was nothing anyone could do, and Eddie got his one--and only--at-bat.
		Eddie was replaced by a pinch runner when he got to first, and he never played again.
		So here's to you, Eddie Gaedel: you made it possible well, we're not sure exactly what you did, except stand at the plate looking tough.
	www.brainevent.com /be/WackyWeek/twwih/20030818/show_article_then_toc (840 words)

	PhilaPhans Message Boards Archive - Abreu to the St Louis Browns... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Phillies plan to play the righthanded hitting, OBP machine Gaedel at firstbase against "tough" lefthanders to spell Ryan Howard and in rightfield against righthanded pitching.
		Gaedel, who has a no-trade clause in his contract agreed to waive that clause after the Phillies assured him he would be batting third in the lineup and not leadoff.
		Gaedel demonstrates why the Phillies are confident he can replace Abreu in the lineup
	www.philaphans.com /forums/showthread/t-33916.html (132 words)

	Open Directory - Sports:Baseball:People:Players:G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eddie Gaedel (1925-1961) was a 3'7" midget who went to the plate one time in his major league "career" as a member of the 1951 St. Louis Browns, wearing uniform number 1/8.
		After a long delay, he was allowed to remain as a batter and walked on four pitches.
		Gaedel was promptly removed for a pinch runner.
	dmoz.org /Sports/Baseball/People/Players/G/desc.html (378 words)

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