During World War II, with hundreds of stars serving overseas, baseball’s rosters filled with unlikely heroes like one-armed outfielder Pete Gray, teenage pitcher Joe Nuxhall, and one-legged war veteran Bert Shepard.
In 1970, Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis claimed he threw a no-hitter while tripping on LSD — a tale equal parts chaos and legend that our AI Truth-O-Meter rates “Mostly True,” because in baseball, sometimes the box score really is stranger than the trip.
From the daredevil age of Ty Cobb to Rod Carew’s audacious 7-for-7 spree in 1969, this story traces the rise, fall, and improbable last stand of stealing home—ending with AI showing that Carew didn’t just beat the odds, he stole probability itself.
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