Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Flint Rhem


On this date in 1930, St. Louis Cardinals fireballer, Flint Rhem disappeared just before a crucial series with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

When he reappeared two days later, he said he had been kidnapped, sequestered in a hotel room and forced to drink an incapacitating amount of liquor. Somehow he survived the incident.

A victim of one of those "Prohibition gangs" back then, no doubt.

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