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The Ancient Booer

 

dude, the Ancient Booer from The Princess Bride had to be one of THE scariest things EVER (from my childhood), alongside such reverse-boner scary beyond scariness as Large Marge in Pee Wee’s, everything in Poltergeist, and the thought that they’d ever cancel Hey Dude  

Bless you Margery Mason, for you done did your job well, and then some, and actually lived to be ancient!  She lived to be 100!!!!!!!  It’s totally boo that she didn’t live to be 200.  BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Mordecai ‘Three Finger’ Brown

Brown (October 19, 1876 – February 14, 1948) lost parts of two fingers on his right hand, then became one of the most elite pitchers of his era with his three finger curveball. According to his biography, he suffered two separate injuries to his right hand. The first and most famous trauma came when he was feeding material into the farm’s feed chopper. He slipped and his hand was mangled by the knives, severing much of his index finger and damaging the others. A doctor repaired the rest of his hand as best he could. While it was still healing, the injury was further aggravated by a fall he took, which broke several finger bones. They were not re-set properly, especially the middle finger

He learned to pitch, as many children did, by aiming rocks at knot-holes on the barn wall and other wooden surfaces. Over time, with constant practice, he developed great control. As a ‘bonus’, the manner in which he had to grip the ball (see photo) resulted in an unusual amount of spin. This allowed him to throw an effective curve ball, and a deceptive fast ball and change-up. The extra topspin made it difficult for batters to connect solidly. In short, he ‘threw ground balls’ and was exceptionally effective [wiki]

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Antonio ‘The Octopus’ Alfonseca

Life his grandfather, Alfonseca (April 16, 1972 – ) has six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, a condition known as polydactyl.  His nicknames are El Pulpo (‘The Octopus’), The Dragonslayer, and Six-Fingers. His main pitch is his sinker

OMG, IT’S COUNT RUGEN/THE SIX-FINGERED MAN REBORN!!!!

YOU KILLA MY FATHER, PREPARE TO WATCH ME COUNT WITH MY FINGERS!!!!!!!!!!

love itz when the internets solve my unsolved mysteries. in the 7th grade – me saw some short movie in Mrs Katz’ English class that blew my mind, but as time passed, could never figure out what it was called, and yet the stark imagery of this short movie of mind blowedness never left my blown mind. all I remembered about the story was that it was about a girl who grew up on earth but now lives on a planet where it rains all the time, and every once in forever, the sun shines for like 2 seconds on this rainy planet. her classmates had never seen the sun, and they tease her and stuff. JERKS!! won’t reveal what happens, but based on that tiny bit of plotness, I decided to goooooogle it the other day and BAM – unsolved mystery no mo!! it was a 1982 PBS TV production of Ray Bradbury’s short story All Summer in a Day, and after watching it again, it STILL blows my mind (which is no sirprise, since I live for reliving sh!t from my childhood). it co-stars Keith Coogan (Uncle Fester’s grandson / babysitting movie alumnus) and gots cinematography by There Will Be Blood‘s Oscar Winner Robert Elswit!!!

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this is soon to be the greatestest song of balls thyme

and, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuh, ummmmmm, uhhhhhh…

and Luke, I am your father, prepare to die

dude, Margery Mason is 99 years old today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 who’s Margery Mason???

YOU FCUKING KNOW WHO MARGERY MASON IS!!!!!!!

she’s about 1 year away from being as old as the Ancient Booer, but she’s still full of life and will juggle yer balls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Peter Michael Falk

‘This Way‘

1927 – 2011