Ex-Red Deacon White elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

December 4, 2012 - 7:03 pm | Category: Sports

The Baseball Hall of Fame just got a bit weirder this week. The Hall’s committee on the Pre-Integration Era (before 1947) elected three new members, including catcher Deacon White.

White played baseball from 1871 to 1890 and was a good player in his era – he was a two-time batting champ and three times he led the league in RBI. What makes White so unique is that he was convinced that the world was flat. White tried to convince his teammates of the world’s flatness using the logic that the world obviously doesn’t move because, if it did, how could an outfielder catch a fly ball?

The history books show that White didn’t convince his teammates.