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At 3′7″ and just 65 lbs, Eddie Gaedel made his first and only appearance in baseball with the St. Louis Browns on August 19, 1951 – a publicity stunt for the Falstaff Brewing Corporation.

Little Eddie adorned in elf slippers and a jersey with the number “â…›” on the back walked on four straight balls in his only Major League appearance.

For more on the life of Eddie Gaedel, head to ESPN, bur before you go, check out the Eddie Gaedel gallery below.

Last week I showed what happens when pitchers get angry and throw at batters in the pictorial 10 Great Baseball Beanings. Then just days later, 3 MLB players were hit in the head, including Dodger starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda who took a line drive off the temple.

This week I’ve decided (mostly because I now believe I have agency over MLB hit-batters, and I love watching brawls) to explain what happens after the beanings (in pictorial form, because I know you don’t feel like reading).

Not surprisingly, there are plenty of Red Sox to go around, so naturally I’ll begin with the classic Pedro v. Don Zimmer.

Enjoy.

Who ever said baseball isn’t a contact sport?

Baseball is unlike almost every other professional sport in that one player can use the ball as a weapon to intentionally injure another player. You don’t see Kobe throwing basketballs in the face of Labron James and you won’t see Eli Manning launching footballs into the masks of Patriot linemen – it doesn’t have the same effect.

Baseball on the other hand is played by an ethical code unique to the game – a code that says ‘throw at my guy, I throw at your guy’. Usually this means that if a player on one team is hit by a pitch, they will throw at a batter on the other team – usually that team’s best hitter – in order to even the playing field and to make a statement.

Of course some batters are hit unintentionally, and some are dealt chin-music with the intent to seriously injure. But intent aside, these are the 10 Great Baseball Beanings Caught At Just The Right Moment (well, a few aren’t really beanings but I couldn’t justify omitting them).

Saaaaaawing and a… cockshot.

For today’s Major League Baseball player, steroids offer more than just the muscle strength and mass that most casual MLB followers notice bulging through the jerseys of Jason Giambi and Mark McGwire.

Pitchers use steroids to lubricate their tendons, allowing them to pitch more frequently and throw harder on fewer days rest. Catchers may do the same to save their knees – just ask Paul Lo Duca or Ivan Rodriguez.

But this list of 10 MLB Roid Monkeys is not intended to shed light on the guys who slip under the radar because their biceps aren’t as big as honeydew melon – instead, this list is meant to show just how big some power-hitters can unnaturally become.

For a complete list of MLB players implicated, admitted, and suspended check out the steroid era.

Click Here For The Bonus Celebrity D-Bag Roid-Monkey!

The guys over at Co-Ed Magazine Put together an MLB All-Roid-All-Star Team comprised of your every childhood idol turned roid-monkey. While the list is thorough (despite lacking Eric Gagne as closer) we would have liked to see Mark McGuire at 1B instead of Raffe Palms.

Additionally, we would have opened up a spot on the roster for Trenidad Hubbard and called his position something like — The clean out the god damn clubhouse for roiding and only hitting 16 home-runs over 10-seasons guy.

To see the complete lineup, head over to Co-Ed Magazine.

And don’t look A-Roid in the eyes — he’s got herpes.

Additionally, I would have added the Dodgers because they’re my team. But unfortunately, the Dodgers haven’t been good for an entire season in twenty years.

5. 1998 Atlanta Braves

Like they did throughout most of the 90’s, the Atlanta Braves of 1998 had it all. They had impressive bats with Javy Lopez, Andres Galarraga, Chipper Jones and Andrew Jones (who was not nearly as fat and worthless as he is today as a Dodger), all with thirty or more home runs and 90 RBI each. They had aces in Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, the Braves’ Forté during the 90’s. Maddux finished with a record of 18-9 an ERA of 2.22, while Glavine went 20-6 with an ERA of 2.47, earning the veteran his second Cy Young Award.

The Braves went 106-56 on the year but managed to lose to Tony Gwynn and the San Diego Padres in the disappointing 98′ NLCS.

4. 2001 Seattle Mariners

The Mariners of 2001 started the season in first place and never wavered. They ended the season 116-46, easily winning the American League West Division Championship, breaking the 1998 Yankees‘ American League single-season record of 114 wins, and matching the MLB record for single-season wins of 116 set by the Chicago Cubs in 1906. Upon the season’s end, Ichiro won the AL MVP, AL Rookie of the Year, and one of three outfield Gold Glove Awards, becoming the first player since the 1975 Boston Red Sox’s Fred Lynn to win all three in the same season.

They didn’t have more than nine losses in any month. Their pitching was stacked as well, led by Jamie Moyer and Freddie Garcia. Moyer won 20 games on the year and Garcia 18 while posting an ERA of just 3.05. They beat everyone during the regular season, but once they got to the playoffs it was a different story.

The Mariners defeated the Indians in the ALDS but once again succumbed to the Yankees for the second year in a row in the ALCS, 4 games to 1, in a series which had been postponed due to the terrorist attacks on September 11.

3. 2004 St. Louis Cardinals

The Cardinals hurdled over everyone finishing the season at 105-57, the best record in baseball. They led the National League in runs, batting average and slugging percentage. The Cardinals where led by Albert Pujols’ 46 home runs and 123 RBI, and Jason Isringhausen’s 47 saves – they were ready to do what they had done in the regular season again in October.

They first defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS and then beat the Houston Astros in the NLCS. When they reached the World Series they were swept by the Boston Red Sox who broke the Curse of the Bambino by winning their first World Series in 86 years.

2. 2008 Anaheim Angels (no, not the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim)

On September 10, the Angels clinched the American League West division title, their seventh in franchise history, and became the earliest team to clinch the division in its history. Three days later, closing pitcher Francisco Rodriguez broke the single-season save record with his 58th save.

With the Boston Red Sox securing the AL Wild Card, the Angels would have to face their old foes who swept the Halos in the 2007 and 2004 division series.

In game 1, John Lackey gave up a 2 run homer to Jason Bay in the top of the sixth allowing Boston to take a lead they would not relinquish. Boston went on to win 4 games to the Angels’ 2, marking the 10th straight playoff game the Angels lost to Boston. People now refer to this as the curse of Donnie Moore.

1. 2008 Chicago Cubs

The Cubs headed into the All-Star break with the National League’s best record, while tied for the league record with eight representatives in the All-Star game, including catcher and 2008 NL Rookie of the Year, Geovany Soto . On September 14, in a game moved because of Hurricane Ike to Miller Park, Zambrano pitched a no-hitter against the Astros, and six days later the team clinched a playoff birth by beating the Cards at Wrigley.

The Boys in Blue ended the season with a 97-64 record, and were soon to face the “other” Boys in Blue – The Los Angeles Dodgers and their recent acquisition – Manny Ramirez. The heavily favored Cubs took an early lead in Game 1, but LA Dodger James Loney and his grand slam off Ryan Dempster turned the game around and gave the Dodgers momentum on the road. Chicago committed numerous critical errors and were outscored 20-6 in a Dodger sweep, which provided yet another sudden and stunning ending to what had once been looked at as a season of destiny.