Monday, July 11, 2011

Great Ejections in Baseball History: Wally Backman

This week's Great Ejection features a video that I didn't think was real the first time I saw it. It is indeed real, however; the South Georgia Peanuts were a real team in the South Coast League, and their manager, Wally Backman, is a real manager (and former Major League player), who was in fact a finalist for the Mets' managerial position this past offseason. Here, we observe him at his finest.



The footage was filmed for a documentary TV series called Playing for Peanuts, documenting the team's 2007 season (the team, and league, folded after just one year of existence). Let's hope Backman gets that job managing in the Majors sometime soon.

2 comments:

  1. Hey thanks for posting this. As the producer of Playing for Peanuts, I can confirm that it is indeed real and, as you know, it's spectacular.

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  2. Thanks John! It certainly is spectacular.

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