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[Cowboy Bob]

He made good toilet paper too!

[shortstop]

One little known fact about Bill's baseball career. He was a September call up to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951. During one game the Dodgers bench was riding the home plate umpire pretty hard. The ump had had enough and went over to the Dodger dugout and ejected a player; obviously one that wouldn't hurt the Dodgers in the pennant race. That player was Bill Sharman. Thus Bill was ejected from a Major League game without ever having played in one.

You would think Chuck Dressen would have at least used him once as a pinch runner during September.

[Paine in the Neck]

Four championships and his number retired with the Celtics, pro baseball for a few years, great coach (the first to get Wilt to play something approximating team ball). The Lakers may claim him now but he’ll always live in Celtics Valhalla.

[Paine in the Neck]

Four championships and his number retired with the Celtics, pro baseball for a few years, great coach (the first to get Wilt to play something approximating team ball). The Lakers may claim him now but he’ll always live in Celtics Valhalla.

[TBP]

Also a “phantom” Major League Baseball player, one who was on the roster but never got into a game.

He did, however, get thrown out of a game in which his team’s entire bench got ejected. He is thus the only player to have been thrown out of a game without ever appearing in one.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Fiji Hill]

Bill Sharman, Fight On forever!