Today I Found Out

Did Fidel Castro Really Almost Pitch in the Major Leagues? (2017x78)

Exibido em:: Abr 01, 2017

→Subscribe for new video→’s NL and AL All-Star Teams was a Woman https://youtu.be/VPHaEfx5srA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3fLCVklBGENr2Tsd2UPpOI That Time Justin Verlander Traded a Percentage of His Major League Signing Bonus for a Milk https://youtu.be/-FTr89MoJps?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3fLCVklBGENr2Tsd2UPpOI In this video: There’s a long history of rulers bragging about their athletic talents. Ancient Egyptian kings sometimes used sporting prowess to show off masculinity and inspire fear. The Roman Emperor Commodus liked to step into the gladiator ring, often asking for already wounded or weakened opponents so he could look superior. (Yes, he was the partial inspiration for the movie Gladiator. Also like in the movie, his sister attempted to have him overthrown after he went off his rocker a bit.) In the 16th century, King Henry VIII jousted to show off to a woman; it also nearly killed him. Even in modern times, Kim Jong-il (real name Yuri Irsenovich Kim) insisted that he had 11 hole-in-ones in a single round of golf and Vladimir Putin intimidates with a judo black belt (not to mention the whole-shirtless-on-horseback thing). Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/08/great-myth-fidel-castros-baseball-career/ Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/post/kim-jong-il-golf-bowling-and-basketball-interests-some-of-which-were-real/2011/12/19/gIQAmWSV4O_blog.html http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/golf/2006-07-16-hole-in-one_x.htm http://washingtonsenators.com/castro.html http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/castro.asp http://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/fidel-castro-and-baseball http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-jousting-accident-that-turned-henry-viii-into-a-tyrant-1670421.html https://books.google.com/books?id=192V884VTWIC&pg=PA307&lpg=PA307&dq=egyptian+kings+athletics&source=bl&ots=agcK6ATv3u&sig=h98IaNVMwIm2p3OFHN9IqkGtW7s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix-baD_arOAhXIGh4KHcWJC1gQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&