Tim Flannery has been all over the baseball world and has wild stories to tell. That includes the wildest of them all, the time he got tossed as a Minor League manager in Spokane and came back to the field in a getup that made his wife laugh “so hard she peed her pants.”
From Francisco Lindor’s playoff-clinching heroics to the Big Christmas Game to the World Series finale, there was no shortage of memorable triumphs this past season.
In 1999, the crosstown clash was still something of a novelty, but this edition provided much to reminisce on, including a legendary performance from the late, great Rickey Henderson.
Jack “Waddy” Wadsworth’s trickery on the mound had nothing to do with his actual pitching. He was a ventriloquist who would routinely get opponents ejected by throwing his voice.