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To mark April Fools' Day , Kidzworld looks at some of the sports world's most foolish flubs and peculiar pranks The Perfect Potato Prank In August, 1987, Dave Bresnahan , a catcher with a minor league team in Williamsport, Pennsylvania , played one of the best pranks in baseball history . Before the game, Bresnahan peeled and sculpted a potato in the shape of a baseball . In the fifth inning, with the potato concealed in his mitt and a runner on third base, he threw the potato wildly past his third baseman , hoping the runner would think he made an errant pick-off throw. The play worked perfectly. The runner at third headed home, and Bresnahan tagged him out with the baseball . But the last laugh of this prank ended up being on Bresnahan. When the umpire found the potato, he awarded the runner a run. The next day Bresnahan was cut from the team, who thought his little potato prank was an insult to the game of baseball Wrong Way Roy Roy Reigels certainly played the part of the fool in the 1929 Rose Bowl between California and Georgia Tech . In the second quarter of the game, a Georgia Tech player | |
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