Rube Waddell: Literally One of the WEIRDEST Guys in History
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Baseball history is FULL of wacky characters, and perhaps one of the wackiest of all was a guy known as Rube Waddell. From gator wrestling, chasing fire trucks mid-game, and his notorious drunkenness to his legendary baseball skills and knack for saving lives, Rube Waddell had one hell of a life- and one hell of a criminal record too. Come learn with me!
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Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist by Alan Levy
That time Baseball Hall of Famer Rube Waddell got bitten by a lion by BaseballObscura
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The Strangest Month in the Strange Career of Rube Waddell by Steven A. King for the Society for American Baseball Research
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I can't get over the fact that this character was born on Friday the 13th and died on April Fools Day.😆 Fascinating video.
Good thing it was all made up. Thank goodness.
@@privateemail9755 I was utterly baffled by your comment, but perhaps you don't realize I was using this definition of the word character: "a person marked by notable or conspicuous traits"
@@privateemail9755 some characters are fictional, but the word is also used to describe someone who’s “larger than life.” It’s metaphorical language.
What a legend
i was born on april 1st.. oh no
"Shrek couldn't stand sleeping in a bed full of crumbs"
Some absolutely choice quotes in this one 🤣
That's because Shrek hadn't met Donkey yet.
@BK Beatty probably from the muffin man
WHAT ARE YOU EATIN' IN MAH SWAAMMMPP??!!!
This reminds me of something my sister said recently
"The funniest way to be a centrist isn't to be middling in all opinions, it's to be so extremely opinionated in so many directions that no one can pinpoint you"
Your sister is really intelligent! She should do something with that :) ❤️
Reminds me of someone...
hehehehehehe
your sister might enjoy the youtube series centricide
Never let them know your next move
As the unofficial patron saint of tomfoolery & shenanigans, it seems appropriate that he would pass away on April Fool's Day. Rest in peace, you ridiculous man
Amen!! May we all be blessed by Saint Rube
@@milknhoneyhoney I’m an atheist but I pray to St. Rube.
His death was a prank, he's just waiting for the right time to come back and continue his whimsical antics.
When people compare me to a Victorian boy, it's mostly because of my hatred for straw hats between the months of September through February.
I love the contrast between being obsessed with firefighting to the point of burning his hands on a wagon for a boy and being an abuser who eats animal crackers in bed. We all contain a vast multitude
Lol, I know you didn't intend for it, but somehow your sentence structure implied eating animal crackers in bed is up there with spousal abuse, which I guess isnt funny, but for some reas9n it just hit me wrong I guess, pun absolutelynot intended, i just dont know how to phrase it differently, lol. Tbf, I also get irate at anyone eating things like crackers in bed (no, not saying it's remotely as bad as the other, don't come at youtube people!)
😂😂😂
@buggjohnson1648 Naw, message clear bro. The implication was vaguely silly.
This man is like all of my ADHD impulses rolled into one person, minus the drinking and wife hitting of course 😅
Y u p
Me during the whole story: "that dude's autistic af"
10/10 relatable character 😂
True, I was only a couple minutes in and I was like "Sounds neurodivergent" 😆
@@nany____ as an autistic person, he's So autistic
@@rudelittleant3654 u gotta wonder how many legendary figures in history were simply autistic lmao
I fully expected each anecdote to end with, "...and that's how he died."
"The Jacksonville Cummers"
If baseball teams still had names like that today, I'd probably watch.
Rhode Island School of Design’s sports teams are called the Nads and the Balls, and they have a mascot called Scrotie (Scrotie is exactly what you’d expect him to be). It’s fuckin wild.
Jacksonville's current baseball team is called the Jumbo Shrimp lol
I can’t find the Jacksonville Cummers/Comers. I believe Kaz was referring to the Columbia Comers, in a league which also had a team in Jacksonville.
@@apcolleen Florida, you have to specify. There's a Jacksonville in every state, and I doubt Rube got it all the way to Florida, seeing as how every other team he played for was in the northeast/midwest.
But on the subject of minor-league teams still having silly names, the Jumbo Shrimp are among such greats as the Albuquerque Isotopes, Amarillo Sod Poodles, Lansing Lugnuts, and Rocket City* Trash Pandas. And those are all feeder teams for MLB teams, one or two steps below the big time.
*Huntsville, Alabama
I physically cannot express how funny it is that he had to sign into his contract that he wouldn’t eat animal crackers in bed because his friend shrek got annoyed
Rube came in on Friday the 13th and went out on April 1st. Truly a man destined for a wild life
Bold of you to assume he left. If I was an immortal being (the evidence is there: thrill seeking behavior, surviving many dangerous incidents, etc) who had the sense of humor Rube had, I too might claim my birthday was Friday the 13th and would definitely pick April fools day to fake my death. 😂
I like how the one time his pitching is actually affected by an injury is
not from his gator wrestling,
not from saving a metal wagon from a burning building,
not from his in-laws' dog biting a chunk out of his arm,
But from wrestling a straw hat off his friend's head.
Props to the actors who had to improv through Rube firing 40 blanks on accident.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, by the time of his third wife he was only THIRTY THREE?! He did all that in 33 years?! THIS MAN
This guy fit more living into a year than most people fit into an entire life.
Hello! My name is Melissa Waddell, and I am a direct descendent of George Edward "Rube" Waddell. He is my great great great uncle! I love your video, and could validate/verify information for you if you were interested! Thank you for your interest in my family history! And yes, the insanity DOES run in the family! Hahaha!
So so cool!!!
thoughts on fire trucks?
A bit insane maybe...but in the baseball Hall of Fame nonetheless!! Proud of our family heritage actually
@@bandidocavalier this guy's asking the real questions
I LOVE hearing you talk about weird dudes from history. I have a suggestion! Francis Bacon, the artist, BUT specifically as told through the biographies of Michael Peppiatt, who followed the artist around like a stray dog for a while. It can get grim, but it's really interesting.
Agreed! A curious and somewhat mysterious figure.
i love francis, wonderful art, incredibly interesting life.
I like this! One of my favorite artists. :) I found about him from a documentary on RUclips.
I love his art so much, but know almost nothing about his life. It would be sick to learn!!!
Definitely a weird guy. This would be a great video!
My grandfather was called Rube even though his legal name was John. I didn’t hear about the “gullible country boy” meaning until I was in high school. That meaning definitely could have fit him, since he grew up on a farm. But now I like to think that his parents were Rube Waddell fans, and decided to nickname their 3rd child after him. The timing checks out.
There’s a Brit saying, “schilling the rubes”, not sure of exact spelling of first word, which means, loosely, conning the simple folk. It’s a time piece isn’t it? Of its time. Kind of glad Rube’s surname wasn’t spelt Waddle😊
I wonder if Rube's firetruck-chasing served as inspiration for Gary Cooper's character in Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) who was similarly a small-town "rube" with a penchant for amateur firefighting...
Intriguing, and seems to me like it would be possible!
This story is nuts. Even more crazy is that I am watching this on my "loved it, rewatch later" playlist and yet I don't remember a single piece of this video. It's not you, I remember tons of things in your other videos, I think this man is just so illusive even my memory can't hold him.
i just kept repeating "this dude rules!" up until the domestic violence
I was so ready to stan
Jacksonville resident here, the team being named the Cummers is in reference to the once powerful and wealthy Cummer family, whose Riverside mansions have since been converted into one of the best local art museums. I volunteered there in highschool! Also, Jacksonville in general was really interesting around this time; being the railroad hub of Florida and a major port, it had a really diverse population and the Lavilla neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the South. The first use of the word blues, Ray Charles' first performances, a Beatles concert that the band had to nearly boycott to have integrated, James Weldon Johnson and many other critical artistic moments from American history happened here, primarily in a neighborhood that was bulldozed in the 90s.
i appreciate this!
And now it’s like floridas version of Afghanistan lol
So the Cummers is named after a wealthy family who lived in mansion that flowed to everywhere in Florida.
I was trying to make a joke of that. Whether it succeeds or not is up to you.
Duuuval
The struggle to not name a child Max would be immense.
I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS MAN --EDIT-- Maybe not the senseless acts of violence against family members, but hey.
Is anybody else living for all these crazy victorian-era baseball team names?
Oh to be a man who is so good at the thing that he still had a job in said thing after just, leaving in the middle of work, to chase trucks like an over excited dog. Oh what a life that would be, a simpler one.
Edit: is it just me or was the 'I have a podcast' tinder profile just seemed to come out of nowhere? Like, I didn't expect him to be a saint but I am suprised he wasn't looking for someone as unhinged as himself. 'Rube needs a woman with strong legs, as too keep up with him when the fire engines ride by the home or field.'
Babe Ruth is a pretty wild character too, early baseball was incredibly chaotic and hilarious, there were almost zero rules and only real weirdos seemed to be pro players 😂 there’s a book called Summer 1927 that describes everything that happened that year (excellent btw, highly recommend) and it includes so many GREAT passages about Ruth’s home run streak that year and a bunch of other players!!
Also this series could feature SO many interesting people…. I would love to request Mata Hari and Brian Wilson! Both have had absolutely roller coaster lives and there’s so much there to talk about
“BABE RUTH ATE A CHILD” -Natasha Lyonne
This makes it a lot more clear why people were into baseball back then
1990s: "Don't go chasin' waterfalls"
Victorian era: "Don't go chasin' fire-engines"
Imagine being Rubes roommate and you hear little munching noises from under the covers at 12:30 and start just absolutely losing your shit. "GOD DAMNIT RUBE! YOU PROMISED!!" ⚰️
Doc Ellis pitching a no-hitter while tripping on LSD was also a pretty weird event in baseball history. Just saying.
That's how I aced my chem lab final
Basically anything Manny Ramirez did would also count. One of my personal favorites: one time while he was playing with the Red Sox he left the field and went through a door in the left field wall to take a piss mid-game: there isn't a toilet back there, but in his words he "figured it out." His family didn't know he played baseball until they saw a segment on the news about him being drafted to the minor leagues straight out of high school. He named both of his sons Manny Jr. The channel Baseball Doesn't Exist did a video on him going through the major highlights of his career, and it's too insane to be fictional.
@@tjenadonn6158manny was a trip, I wish I was old enough to truly appreciate the craziness when he was playing
I do not know anything nor do I care much about baseball. That being said, this was entertaining as hell. What a legend. Running off in the middle of a game because your attention is on your special interest is relatable af. Side question: You pronounce “ball” in a very interesting way I’ve not heard so far. Is that a California thing? (I’m European so not super educated with the intricacies of US accents.)
I think they were putting on some sort of new York accent (Brooklyn maybe? I'm Canadian idk) when saying baseball, and that's why they pronounced it that way?
Ya they were effecting a New York accent (new York accents sometimes put a "w" like sound in front of vowels: cwoffe, bwall, dwog) & strong new York accents are considered fun/funny hence them poking fun at it
My family are all huge baseball fans, but not me and my sister. There was a rally cat at a game I was looped into viewing and literally all I remember from the game was a cat ran into the field who was later adopted. I don't even know if we won
Man this dude really lived the life, just following the dopamine
born on friday the 13th, died on april’s fools… that tells you just about everything you need to know about him
If Rube stepped on lego barefeet, the lego piece would crack
Im gonna start calling my cat a rube. Also, I want Chris Hemsworth to play Rube in a film.
Omg yes
Why is there not a Rube movie yet?! (probably cause way too much happened for it all to be covered in a movie)
the 3Fs of Rube Waddell- fighting, firefighting, and fishing
I like these videos on random strange people in life
I would love to see live laugh love style merch of fistfight firefight fish
he was a golden retriever of a man
No literally oh my god
So true
Himbo
Also a pedophile tho
Aside from the alcoholism and wife-hitting, of course
Looking at the title I wasn't sold on the sportsball topic, but then I figured, if Kaz thinks it's worth covering then it must be good. And it was.
I recently did a fresh playthrough of Outer Worlds by Obsidian which has a similar turn of the century retro futurism vibe. And I always thought the weird and outlandish characters in the game were a bit of an exaggeration. But learning about people like Rube and it all suddenly makes a whole lot of sense. I guess people are still as strange in modern times. Just strange in different ways.
Also can we talk more about the bonkers dress code rules around Labour Day and the likes? I feel there could be a whole series on the topic.
Rube Wadell seems to be the definition of chaotic, random decisions up and down, I love it! Also, the names of the teams had me dying. Great video!
I do get tired of people calling everyone autistic if they're a little weird as someone with autism. However him being gullable mixed with the misunderstanding of social norms sounds like he's got a bit of the 'tism. and I am proud.
Edit: Just got to the end of the video... lol sorry. Autism is not something that is wrong with you, though.(as it took me years of therapy to accept.)
"he's got a bit of the 'tism" i absolutely love this
Yes, it is something that is wrong with you.
@@sarahrobertson634 Is being a fishy cunted twat what's wrong with you?
@@NerdySabbath Yup.
@@sarahrobertson634but it’s not? Just because someone’s brain works differently than the majority doesn’t necessarily mean they’re something “wrong” with them they just learn differently 🤷🏼♀️
Somehow, this entire thing sounds like the cross between a middle aged man's tall tale and a 5 year old's...but only if the two were competing with each other.
this is the most chaotic energy of a person ive ever heard of lol, your videos are always the most interesting of any of my subs - not a dud among them
This was an absolute trip, some people are just simply main characters.
Im fully awake and can understand words very well and was ready to believe that the dudes message was "keep away from booze and ziggurats" cause yea fair enough
I demand that this man's life be turned into a movie. It's too good not to tell this story!
The thing about that is that nobody would believe it's not fictional
YES early MLB has so many wacky characters, it's one of my historical niches lol!
I know you cautioned against diagnosing him, but I personally feel it's safe to say he falls under the umbrella of neurodivergent -- he certainly thought very differently to most people! And I really don't think of that category as a pathology. Disability is an invention of society, and what types of people it chooses to accommodate. E.g. having a mild visual disability is fine bc glasses and lasik are in common use, but having chronic pain or an autoimmune disorder means you're a "problem" bc you need unpredictable time off work, and workplaces are not set up to account for this.
Rube Waddell was really the Rasputin 2.0. Apparently life and death were having a really odd and if only tipsy a rather drunken poker game to see what would take both men out. So fascinating how such people have living such wild and interesting life's and more so as to how they end.
Baseball at the turn of the 20th century had a tendency of giving players increasingly cruel nicknames - players from the country were called "Rube" (regardless of their gullibility), hefty players were called "Fatty" or... um... "Blimp," and I am absolutely not going to repeat what dark-complected players were called in baseball's segregated days.
Couldn't click on this one fast enough. Waddell is one of the greatest "Kaz Rowe Video Characters" in baseball history.
“Dark-complected” should not be in your vocabulary at this point. Do better.
@@Hippidippimahm that is a fair point. What I was trying to say is that regardless of their ethnicity (at the time, remember that Major League Baseball was strictly segregated) players whose skin was dark were given racist nicknames.
@@Hippidippimahm I don't mean this in a rude way, but what's wrong with dark-complected? It seems to just he saying someone has a dark completion, so if there's a racist history behind the term I'd love to hear it.
"rube had to sign in his contract that he wouldn't eat animal crackers in bed"
me, watching this video while eating animal crackers in bed: 😶
Be thankful
What an interesting person and very well told history! Now I'll have something to talk about with a US baseball fan even though I have never seen a single match. Thank you for telling these stories!
Why Jiji didn't get a tiny cap?
The problem with quirky people, is that they're only fun when you're not the one dealing with them, when you actually have to suffer the consequences of their actions, you realize they're not quirky, they're just assholes.
Not gonna lie... He's seems truly worthy of "Rube"
"Don't Go Chasing Firetrucks" is probably the long awaited follow-up to "Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls"
That man is just the personification of chaos.
i like that back in the day there was so many fires that it was even feasible to run off the field to go fight a fire more than twice. i think i've only seen like one house fire in my life
Electricity made house fires less of an issue
As a baseball fanatic and history buff I was familiar with this story. What’s intriguing is that it shows up on this channel.
EXCELLENT job of telling the story from a “every day” perspective. That perspective might be out of context however.
There’s a lot of drudgery in the lifestyle of athletics, and much more so back then, when they played all day games. Those guys had decent money for their time and free evenings. Added together with the varying educational accomplishments of these guys and you ended up with a lot of characters. Babe Ruth was nicknamed “Babe” because he grew up in an orphanage and never went anywhere until he got out of the orphanage at age 18. The first time he was in a hotel he rode the elevator all day for fun.
Good job with this story and the channel
I appreciate that you're still telling people to wash their hands and wear a mask. Feels like a lot of people have given up on things this far in.
My ADHD ass has never related more to a historical figure.
as someone on the autsim spectrum and with adhd, rube feels like a Kindred Spirit
Loved every minute of this! Never thought I'd be so captivated by a baseball player.
My dad really loves baseball and got me into it as a kid, and man some of the stories, especially in the older days are super wild. Like just looking into Babe Ruth’s life is a pretty good ride haha.
Also funny enough my dad pitched for his baseball team growing up and still pitches now and is ambidextrous, throwing mainly with his left! It’s funny how many pitchers are left handed.
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Super interesting video, but also you are one of the only people who I’ve heard pronounce my last name correctly. Its always mispronounced as “waddle” which I understand if you are just seeing it for the first time but it has become a nickname that I really hate. Anyways, keep up the great work!
Rube chasing firetrucks in the middle of a baseball game is... So pure.
Oh sweet Jesus….I love the ad, what a fruitcake. Um, are you sure he wasn’t Australian? I am, and l know a few of the older gents here who are sooooo like him. My Uncle, wife number three….ex boxer. Yep. Ring a ding ding. This was SO enjoyable. We can’t let these ratbags (term of endearment for a Scalliwag here) get forgotten! They give us hope. If the world keeps going with them in it, we’ll be fine…🤗
Katz you brighten the day so much!❤️
If Rube didn't have ADHD... He did. Absolute king.
Lol
Yeah, I also assumed that.
Anyway, it is sad that his life got Controlled by his impulsivness like that. But I am also a bit jaleous that he was brave enough to do everything he wanted to do.
Bring back Victorian Baseball Team Names!
He seems to have ADHD. That’s not a bad thing or “what was wrong” with him. It just made him different.
As someone with ADHD, the impulsiveness says it all LMAO
Just want to say I just found your channel and I am loving your content. It is right up my alley.
Also, if you look at the history of early baseball it is full of interesting characters.
Thank you so much for introducing me to Rube, I never heard of this truelly unique man and I have no idea how I went this far without learning of Rube.
I recently discovered your channel from the gay cowboy video and I have been binging your videos since then. Your videos are so well thought out, interesting, and you are a wonderful presence. This is the best history class I’ve ever been in.
To be honest I'm kinda shocked people back then were questioning the age gap of 19-34 considering it was very common for arranged marriages between teenage girls and old men back then.
That dad polo is of the finest quality 👌🔥🤠
That placket!
Just goes to show, as long as you're good at one thing, you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want
He reminds me of Forrest Gump!!
The stakes just kept getting higher every time I thought “surely it can’t get weirder than this” 😂
Even though he was born less than 150 years ago it does seem like ancient times when he's described as a hulking man. I looked him up. He was 6'1" and around 200 lbs. Same height and slightly less weight than me. Sure I'm a bit taller than average but no one would call me hulking in this day and age!
Rube is basically my life goals. Fish and play as the fancy takes you
A weird dude but kind of an innocent soul in some ways. If he had treated his body as a temple instead of amusement park, he might have been been a baseball legend. 😐
He did enough to be elected to Major league Baseball hall of fame
And he would have been as memorable as the other Victorian baseball greats. Oh wait..
He obvs didn't die on April 1st, but falsified his death and continues his wild escapades to this day, since he was clearly an immortal. How else would he have survived all of those other incidents? 😂 I mean, if he was to pick a day to die on, seems like the choice he'd make, hmm? 🤔
imagine how unhinged this bro would've been on twitter.
no wait, i think he'd be more of an instagram kind of guy
doing live streams at the most random of times, none of which included him doing any of his big stunts
i think he'd just like eat onion rings and get trolled by the comments lmao
Love that he bared it all so people could live. What a true hero 🔥🦸🏻♂️ 🙌
Rube's manager: pl-please just show up to the game
RUBE: *B A L L*
OMG What a maniac 😆 , I was Lmao ! . They don't build them like that anymore..... but that's probably a good thing Your channel rocks , keep up the great work and stay safe . ❤ from Baltimore Maryland
You rock love the videos, showing love to the oddities that history hasn’t paid much mind to
STRONG neurodivergent vibes from Rube ❤️
I did not expect a video about baseball to be so thoroughly entertaining. It got pretty sobering toward the end there... but then you HAD to go and say he died on April Fools. What a man. What a character. What a story.
Hi, hello! You should do a video on the fact Percy Shelley’s friends, including Lord Bryon, dug up his body, dumped wine on it, and lit it on fire. Why isn’t this talked about?!? Sounded like a video you’d do
Byron was a chaotic maniac 😂 I would love a video profile of him
That new york characetr voice "throw da bwall" GOT ME
Initially I clicked on this video because Waddell is my stepdad’s last name (possible ancestor?) And I’m glad that I did because I kept laughing at all of the hilarious things Rube did. What a man. ⚾️🐊🎣
This guy sounds like a Wizard trying to, badly, blend in with the rest of America in the 1900s. Like, "I'm going to be a perfect member of American Society by playing the most American sport there is… OOOH!!! GEESE!!! I will teach them how to jump rope, while wrestling an Alligator and throwing handfuls of random ammunition I found lying around🤩"
he lived a short life, but honestly, probably experienced more than most who lived twice as long.
And this is proof that the algorithm knows what it's doing. One of your videos popped up in my feed, the one concerning the production of Wizard of Oz, and a few hours and a few dog walks later I had watched several more, including this absolute gem. I love your work, please keep it up. And whatever you do, find another excuse to do another baseball video, if for no other reason than your pronunciation of the sport's name, which is quite endearing. Seriously, I love your work and look forward to checking out more of it. Great content!
I recently discovered my great-great grandpa and Rube's mom were siblings. Making Rube my 1st cousin 3x removed.
"... began crying and swore he would change his ways.
He did not."
Were you actually in Chicago when the Cubs won in 2016? If so, you are super lucky. That night was insane, and cannot be recreated in a lifetime. One of my brother's coworkers jumped off a structure, and snapped both his legs. This was something the news barely covered because of all the other chaos going on. Still 6 years later and you can find 2016 world champions in a lot of memorabilia stores.
besides the whole abusing drugs and abusing wives, he seems like a cool guy just doing what he pleased. feel like we can learn something from him.
Baseball has all the best stories. I'm sure I don't know why. But this was a clssic baseball story in every possible way. Thank you
This just sounds like autism before people knew what autism was.
yeah as soon as I heard the firetruck stuff concluded that
EDIT: not that I think that's what was "wrong" with him- the wrong imo is moreso how society can handle something like that