How to Pronounce Eddie Gaedel
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Jun 08, 1925 Chicago, Illinois, United States Died on 18 Jun 1961 (aged 36)
American baseball player
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About Eddie Gaedel
- Edward Carl Gaedel (June 8, 1925 – June 18, 1961) was the smallest player to appear in a Major League Baseball game.
- Gaedel (some sources say the family name may actually have been Gaedele, which is the name seen on his gravestone) gained recognition in the second game of a St.
- Louis Browns doubleheader on August 19, 1951.
- Weighing 65 pounds (29 kg) and standing 3 feet 7 inches (109 cm) tall, he became the shortest player in the history of the Major Leagues.
- Gaedel made a single plate appearance and was walked with four consecutive balls before being replaced by a pinch-runner at first base.
- His jersey, bearing the uniform number "?1/8", is displayed in the St.
- Louis Cardinals Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. St.
- Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck, in his 1962 autobiography Veeck – As in Wreck, said of Gaedel, "He was, by golly, the best darn midget who ever played big-league ball.
- He was also the only one."
