Eddie Gaedel
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Edward Carl Gaedel was the smallest player to appear in a Major League Baseball game.
Gaedel batting in August 1951, in his only plate appearance in baseball
Gaedel's grave at Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery
Bob Cain
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Robert Max "Sugar" Cain was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns between 1949 and 1954. He batted and threw left-handed. On August
Eddie Gaedel
…taught for a pose that Veeck described as "a fair approximation of Joe DiMaggio's classic style", leading Veeck to fear he was going to swing. With Bob Cain (listed as six feet tall, 29 inches taller than Gaedel) on the mound—laughing at the absurdity that he actually had to pitch to Gaedel—and catcher Bob…
Cain c. 1953