Mo Vaughn once stole home

I was watching Baseball Tonight last night on ESPN and of course, they are still talking about Jacoby Ellsbury's steal of home against the Yankees. They then throw up a graphic showing the last 6 or 7 Red Sox players who have stolen home in a game and I see that they have Mo Vaughn listed who apparently did it against the Athletics in 1996. My first thought is "Oh, come on now. Pictures or it didn't happen." My second thought was that the date is April 27th and this is a little late for an April Fools joke.

After a few more disoriented thoughts, I came to the conclusion that in this age of the internet, ESPN cannot really get away with blatantly lying about something like this so I googled the phrase "Mo Vaughn stealing home" and only came up with articles about how apparently an advisor of his stole money from him. Hmmmmm.

Rather than spend any more time on this, I guess that I am ready to concede that Mo Vaughn actually once stole home in a major league baseball game though it was hard to even type this as I think instinctively my brain knows that this could not possibly be true which probably triggered some type of override response in another part of the brain to get the fingers to actually type out the words.

Now if ESPN starts to report that Mo Vaughn once hit an inside-the-park home run, hit for the cycle or once won that sausage race in Milwaukee, I am back to "Pictures or it didn't happen" mode.