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Bill and Mike Veeck Baseball Showmen
Type: Sports Summary: Father and son Bill and Mike Veeck revolutionized baseball with their wild and wacky stunts. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Between 1946 and 1979, Bill Veeck owned the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox (twice). But Veeck was best known for bringing promotional…
Channel Swim Hoax
Type: Sports Hoax. Summary: In 1927 Dorothy Cochrane Logan claimed to have swum the English Channel. She later admitted she had only swum the first and last miles. Text excerpted from The Fresno Bee, September 7, 1955: The famous channel swimming hoax, carried out to show how easily such a…
Great American Golf Hustlers
Type: Sports. Summary: Some of golf’s greatest players never went pro because they could make more money hustling millionaire country club suckers. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Some of golf’s greatest players have never become professionals for the simple reason that they could make much more money hustling country club multi-millionaires.…
Great Chess Automaton
Type: Technology Hoax. Summary: Centuries before IBM built Deep Blue, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen built what he claimed was a “thinking machine” that could play chess against human opponents. A woodcut of the Turk that accompanied Poe’s 1836 article. According to Poe it was a ‘tolerable representation’ of the automaton.…
Great Rose Bowl Hoax
Type: College Prank. Summary: Caltech students succeeded in altering the University of Washington’s halftime flip-card routine during the 1961 Rose Bowl in order to read “CALTECH”.Table of Contents The mechanics of the prank The Plan Unfolds Acclaim and Criticism Not the first… or the last References The Rose Bowl, January…
Monkey Fishing
Type: Hoax. Summary: Slate.com reporter describes the sport of fishing for monkeys. Jay Forman wrote an occasional “Vice” column for the online magazine Slate.com. It provided him with a mainstream outlet to detail some of the bizarre activities he had engaged in or witnessed over the years. For instance, one…
Olympic Underwear Relay
Type: Sports Prank. Summary: At the 1956 Olympics in Australia, a prankster carrying a pair of flaming underwear briefly took the place of the official torch bearer. Route of the 1956 Olympic torch relay, from Cairns to Melbourne. In 1956 runners bore the Olympic flame across Australia, on a path…
Sidd Finch
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: Sports Illustrated claimed that the new pitcher for the New York Mets could pitch a baseball at 168 mph. Sidd Finch is listed at #2 in the Museum’s list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. SIDD FINCH HAIKUThe Buddha…
Virginia City Camel Race
Type: Hoax that became real. Summary: Virginia City, Nevada hosts an annual camel race that began as a hoax. In 1959 Bob Richards, the editor of the Nevada-based Territorial Enterprise, announced that a camel race would be held that year down the main street of Virginia City. He challenged other…
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Bill and Mike Veeck Baseball Showmen
Type: Sports Summary: Father and son Bill and Mike Veeck revolutionized baseball with their wild and wacky stunts. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Between 1946 and 1979, Bill Veeck owned the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox (twice). But Veeck was best known for bringing promotional…
Channel Swim Hoax
Type: Sports Hoax. Summary: In 1927 Dorothy Cochrane Logan claimed to have swum the English Channel. She later admitted she had only swum the first and last miles. Text excerpted from The Fresno Bee, September 7, 1955: The famous channel swimming hoax, carried out to show how easily such a…
Great American Golf Hustlers
Type: Sports. Summary: Some of golf’s greatest players never went pro because they could make more money hustling millionaire country club suckers. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Some of golf’s greatest players have never become professionals for the simple reason that they could make much more money hustling country club multi-millionaires.…
Great Chess Automaton
Type: Technology Hoax. Summary: Centuries before IBM built Deep Blue, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen built what he claimed was a “thinking machine” that could play chess against human opponents. A woodcut of the Turk that accompanied Poe’s 1836 article. According to Poe it was a ‘tolerable representation’ of the automaton.…
Great Rose Bowl Hoax
Type: College Prank. Summary: Caltech students succeeded in altering the University of Washington’s halftime flip-card routine during the 1961 Rose Bowl in order to read “CALTECH”.Table of Contents The mechanics of the prank The Plan Unfolds Acclaim and Criticism Not the first… or the last References The Rose Bowl, January…
Monkey Fishing
Type: Hoax. Summary: Slate.com reporter describes the sport of fishing for monkeys. Jay Forman wrote an occasional “Vice” column for the online magazine Slate.com. It provided him with a mainstream outlet to detail some of the bizarre activities he had engaged in or witnessed over the years. For instance, one…
Olympic Underwear Relay
Type: Sports Prank. Summary: At the 1956 Olympics in Australia, a prankster carrying a pair of flaming underwear briefly took the place of the official torch bearer. Route of the 1956 Olympic torch relay, from Cairns to Melbourne. In 1956 runners bore the Olympic flame across Australia, on a path…
Sidd Finch
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: Sports Illustrated claimed that the new pitcher for the New York Mets could pitch a baseball at 168 mph. Sidd Finch is listed at #2 in the Museum’s list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time. SIDD FINCH HAIKUThe Buddha…
Virginia City Camel Race
Type: Hoax that became real. Summary: Virginia City, Nevada hosts an annual camel race that began as a hoax. In 1959 Bob Richards, the editor of the Nevada-based Territorial Enterprise, announced that a camel race would be held that year down the main street of Virginia City. He challenged other…