Today I Found Out
Did Fidel Castro Really Almost Pitch in the Major Leagues? (2017x78)
Date de diffusion: Avr 01, 2017
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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).
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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&
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