Joe Sprinz

Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
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In this classic column on Joe Sprinz, Cecil cited the Guinness World Records book as saying that ol’ Joe caught the ball, albeit with his teeth.

The first two Web sources I found after a Google search state that he missed the ball and that the stunt was thereafter dubbed “The greatest catch that was never made.”

http://www.senior-spectrum.com/columnists/gilliam_042203/

http://www.weekender.co.jp/LatestEdition/981120/strange.html

(The online Guinness World Records http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ didn’t have an entry on ol’ Joe.)

I wonder what really happened on that summer day in 1939 …

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On an amost unrelated topic, why dig Slug draw a fish taking a pic? Did he suspect that it was all a “one that got away” story?

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Ten-yard penalty for an illegal hijack, sford. :smiley:

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Spiff,
Perhaps it was the term “Highest Catch” which prompted the fish to take a picture. I’d be pretty excited, myself, seeing as how whenever I type in the words “highest catch” on Google I get a lot of hits about fish. That is, I would be excited… IF I were a fish.

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I’m sorry, the above post was meant for sford, not Spiff. First post and already I’m comitting the sin of faux pas… sigh

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I got curious and started Googling too. In short order I found this:

There were quite a lot of hits, but of the five or so I checked that’s the only one that made any reference to this stunt. “Hits him in the face” makes it sound more like an accident to me, though.

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jackelope, I think it certainly was an accident. I assume he meant to catch it with his glove. Cecil’s joke about catching it with his teeth wasn’t supposed to imply that he intended to do so.

Spiff, I said it was almost unrelated! That only earns me a slap on the back of the hand. Preferably with Lady Jinxx’s fake paw.