{"id":24303,"date":"2007-12-04T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/12\/04\/would-a-team-of-midgets-be-the-greatest-offense-in-baseball-history\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T10:00:01","slug":"would-a-team-of-midgets-be-the-greatest-offense-in-baseball-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20071204-01\/?p=24303","title":{"rendered":"Would a team of midgets be the greatest offense in baseball history?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/todd33.com\/\"> Todd Gallagher<\/a> answers <a href=\"http:\/\/catdir.loc.gov\/catdir\/toc\/ecip0717\/2007017845.html\"> the weird sports questions you always wondered but knew were too stupid even to ask<\/a>. Think of it as the sports version of <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/fansites\/mythbusters\/mythbusters.html\"> <i>Mythbusters<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would a team of midgets be the greatest offense in baseball history,     because they would draw walk after walk after walk? <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119143109983647814.html\">Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an NHL team<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li>Could an average person beat a professional tennis player if the     pro had to use a frying pan instead of a racquet? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Well, he sort of gives away the answer to the last question in the title of his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307352803?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=tholneth-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307352803\"> <i>Andy Roddick Beat Me with a Frying Pan<\/i><\/a>. The stories behind how he set about finding the answers to these absurd questions are even more entertaining than the answers themselves! Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyagame.org\/shows\/2007\/11\/20071117.asp\"> an interview with <i>Only a Game<\/i>&#8216;s Bill Littlefield<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/realserver.bu.edu:8080\/ramgen\/w\/b\/wbur\/oag\/audio\/2007\/11\/oag_1117.rm?start=40:56\">Direct link<\/a> &#8211; Real format]<\/p>\n<p> On a somewhat concidental note, tonight I&#8217;m going to watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\/\"> Seattle Thunderbirds<\/a> take on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amshockey.com\/\"> Tri-City Americans<\/a>, making good on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/03\/02\/82721.aspx\"> my earlier admission of the possibility of seeing another hockey game<\/a>. Hopefully with normal-sized goalies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Gallagher answers the weird sports questions you always wondered but knew were too stupid even to ask. Think of it as the sports version of Mythbusters. Would a team of midgets be the greatest offense in baseball history, because they would draw walk after walk after walk? Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-24303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Todd Gallagher answers the weird sports questions you always wondered but knew were too stupid even to ask. Think of it as the sports version of Mythbusters. Would a team of midgets be the greatest offense in baseball history, because they would draw walk after walk after walk? 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