| Hal Stowe's Wiffle Ball | |
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Origin |
Hal Stowe |
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Type |
Wiffle Ball |
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Effects |
Lets user accomplish a solitary, outstanding feat |
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Downsides |
Noteworthiness is short-lived |
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Activation |
Throwing |
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Section |
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Origin[]
Harold Rudolph Stowe (born August 29, 1937) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Following his college baseball career with the Clemson Tigers, Stowe played in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees in 1960. Days after the 1959 CWS ended, the New York Yankees signed Stowe as an amateur free agent for a bonus reported to be above $20,000 ($209,041 in current dollar terms). Stowe played for the Greeensboro Yankees, Fargo-Moorhead Twins, Amarillo Gold Sox and Richmond Virginians.
In 1964, the Yankees released Stowe, and he signed with the Minnesota Twins, who assigned him to the Charlotte Hornets of the Class AA Southern League. On July 11, he came into a tie game with two out and a runner on base. He picked off the baserunner, ending the inning without throwing a pitch, and earned the win after the team scored the go-ahead run in the next inning. This no-pitch win (where the pitcher's thrown ball does not count as a ball or strike) was the 15 minutes of fame during his career; Stowe retired after the season.
Effects[]
The pitcher will do something amazing within the immediate time frame. Can span from a few minutes to a day later. But always involves some unexpected spectacle that is praiseworthy by onlookers. Most involve the existing skills of the user mixed with lucky circumstances that push the person to succeed.
Unless recorded by others, talk of the town quickly fades away. The act itself is usually too ridiculously impossible to be believed without eyewitness proof. It will just remain as a funny little tale they tell their kids while no one else can expect such exaggerations to have happened. A literal 15 minutes of fame.