Chuck Conners played as the Rifleman that is shown on the video screen at the games. Do you know he played minor league baseball and is famous for what baseball trivia question?

Is this it? He played for both the NBA and Major League Baseball? He played minor league baseball for the Mobile Bears.

david

or this . .

He is credited with being the first professional basketball player to break a backboard.

Hint. Before his film career, he played professional sports as a Center for the Boston Celtics. But he left the Celtics to play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He did finally play for them some as well as the Chicago Cubs but most of his efforts were in the minor league circuit. That is where he is known for a very unusual antic!

I'm gonna have to think on that a bit....

. . or this little gem

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The actor achieved notoriety for an incident on an NBC prime-time baseball telecast in the 1970s. The network regularly invited a celebrity commentator to join the regular play-by-play crew in the broadcast booth. Connors accidentally said the "f-word" during the live national telecast, stunning both the announcers and the audience.

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. . .from Wiki

Not what I'm looking for but interesting for sure.

I believe he hit a home run, slid safely into second, did cartwheels to third, and then crawled home.

And then somehow lived through his next plate appearance...


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He may have done that also. But he also did something else.

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he threw raw hamburger to rowdy fans at a road game and taunted umpires with Shakespearean quotes

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according to http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Chuck_Connors

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No, I think that was Billy Martin.

ok skins, as fun as this game is, the man obviously did a lot of things, as he lived a very full life, being a famous actor, basketball player, and baseball player. We will be hard pressed to figure out exactly which little insignificant thing you are thinking of, so why don't you just tell us?

Yeah, I need to leave work too.

He hit a home run and ran the bases backwards. Not backwards running but ran to third, second, first, and home. No rule against it at the time.

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taunted umpires with Shakespearean quotes

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"Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it."
"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
"I do bite my thumb, sir."
"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
"No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir."
"Do you quarrel, sir?"
"Quarrel sir! no, sir."