"i bet that if i unscrewed her ears, cabbage would fall out"

[rone]

Found this in Peter Gammons's latest column:

According to the Korean News Bureau, South Korean Doosan Bears' pitcher Park Myung-hwan twice lost his cap while delivering a pitch and each time frozen cabbage leaves fell off his head twice in a game on June 19. The frozen cabbage leaves inside the cap were used to keep his head cool.

The Korea Baseball Organization has been moved to rule that wearing cabbage leaves inside a baseball cap constitutes an "alien material" that may disrupt a game, prohibited according to the organization's rules, the organization said in a statement Tuesday.

The subject line is from a Broom-Hilda cartoon that has stuck in my mind since early childhood.

Comments

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Babe Ruth used to do that, and while I'm not sure baseball players today should necessarily be allowed to do everything Babe Ruth did, cabbage in the hat seems harmless enough.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Spoken like someone who's never tried to hit an infamous "cole-ball". Why, i could write a thesis on the effects of Brassica oleracea on a horsehide-covered spheroid.