ST. LOUIS — Major League Baseball is no stranger to strange moments. The game of baseball almost seems to invite strange moments. But on Aug. 19, 1951, St. Louis was home to one of the most unique, ...

It is one of the most unforgettable, if not one of the most unusual, images in major league baseball history. Eddie Gaedel, all 3-foot-7 and 65 pounds of him, crouched over in the batter's box, ...

Eddie Gaedel, who stood 3'7" tall, holds the grand distinction of being the shortest Major League player in history. The stunt was orchestrated by Bill Veeck, the St. Louis Browns owner who was known ...

He only appeared in one game, and it’s a moment cemented in baseball history. Now Eddie Gaedel, the St. Louis Browns batter with dwarfism, has his own day in Missouri. Eddie Gaedel was a 3-foot-7 man ...

One of the most famous promotional stunts in major league history (though it was just another day at the office for Bill Veeck). The St. Louis Browns owner, who would later mastermind several infamous ...

Not the St. Louis Browns because they don’t exist anymore, but this is kinda close: On July 17, the Farmington Browns Baseball Club will retire Eddie Gaedel’s famous number 1/8 in ceremonies between ...

The 1951 St. Louis Browns were a horrible baseball team. Finishing with just 52 wins, attendance was a constant struggle for owner Bill Veeck. What could he do to get people to watch his pathetic team ...

Eddie Gaedel with other Browns baseball players in the dugout in 1951, featured in "Lost Treasures of St. Louis." Photo by Dorrill Photographers, Missouri Historical Society Photographs and Prints ...

Bill DeWitt Jr. was 9 years old when Bill Veeck needed a favor. Long on loan to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, jersey will return to St. Louis as part of Ballpark Village.

Hello everyone I’m Dan Lucy on the Ozarks First digital desk. Baseball promotions are common place these days, from Wolf Wednesdays, when you can bring you dog to the ballgame, to thirsty Thursdays, ...

The man who died with little fanfare this week (June 17) in 1961 has the highest on-base percentage in Major League Baseball history — 1,000 percent, meaning he reached base in every one of his plate ...

He had just recently joined the St. Louis Browns when he was replaced in the lineup by Eddie Gaedel, a 3-foot-7 circus performer, in a game in 1951. By Richard Goldstein Frank Saucier won batting ...