Birdie Tebbetts

On this date in 1940, rowdy fans in Cleveland drop a basket of green tomatoes onto the head of Tigers catcher, Birdie Tebbetts while he sat in the bullpen.

That is why concessions in Cleveland switched over to hot dogs and soft-buns, you know.

Those concessions workers should have been suspicious when someone wanted to purchase a whole basket of tomatoes; especially when they asked if they had any rotten ones!

Come on! Get your radar up!

Geez.