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What do you know about Eddie Gaedel's life after his playing career?

When he and three other dwarfs arrived by helicopter dressed as Martians at Comisky Park in 1959 and "kidnapped" two of the players, who were the other three dwarfs?

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
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    All I know about Gaedel's later career is what I've read on Wikipedia and a couple other sites. After his famous plate appearance, Bill Veeck kept him on the payroll and used him for a variety of odd jobs. He had a stint as an usher and a vendor, and he occasionally appeared in Veeck's crazy on-field promotional schemes, like the Martian incident.

    Unfortunately, I think the names of the other dwarfs have been lost to history. You'll probably have as much luck finding their names as you will have finding, say, the name of the top-selling beer vendor at Fenway Park in 1962.

    The names of the players they captured are known: Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Playing career is a stretch(no pun intended) as he had only 1 plate appearance.

    He later joined a traveling circus and billed himself as "The Worlds Smallest Giant"

    Actually the other dwarfs in the skit were never identified but the 2 White Sox players

    involved were the double play combo of Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio.

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