George Fisher and the worst luck a baseball player can have
George Fisher, once a major-league outfielder, without doubt had the worst day a ballplayer ever had.
One afternoon while playing for Minneapolis, he came to bat five times-and five times he struck out. Added to his misery, he dropped a fly ball, which cost his team the game. To add to his woes for that one afternoon, the only ball he managed to touch when at bat was a line drive foul which he poked over the wall. The ball bounced into the street outside the ballpark. When the game was over, the irate manager of the Minneapolis team, Mike Kelly, rushed up to Fisher and screamed:
"It ain't bad enough you didn't get a hit-it ain't bad enough you struck out five times-and I can even stand your lousing up that fly ball that lost us the game-but that foul ball you hit out of the ballpark broke a plate glass window in a store across the street and the owner just handed me a bill for five hundred bucks. You're going to pay it out of your salary-you no-good bum."
