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Podcast: Past Ball Podcast
Episode: Dizzy Dean Fake Ball Trick| Past Ball Podcast | Pastball Podcast #103
Description: Dizzy Dean Fake Ball TrickThis is the Pastball Podcast, a podcast that gives you a daily baseball history story faster than the amount of time you can run around the bases, and I'm your host, Matt. Dizzy Dean's Fake Ball Trick. In the 1934 World Series, Dizzy Dean, a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, famously executed a trick play involving a fake baseball. During game seven against the Detroit Tigers, Dean, known for his colorful personality, pretended to throw a pitch with the second ball he had concealed in his glove. The Tigers runner on first base, Mickey Cochran, was...