Josh Wood

Ex Baseball player Ex Car Guy Griller

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

That home run had to feel unreal, man.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Fixed his own broken nose with pair of pliers.
Could drink beer through his nose.
Cut a tattoo out with a razor.
Stitched his own cut with fishing line.
Won a bet by eating six lit cigarettes. Opened beers with his forearms....
And his eye socket."
"I would say 40 to 60 percent of the stories are true.
Some I’ve seen, I don’t know how they were made up."
"Super Joe' Charbaneau.
Hit a 3rd deck home run into the left field grandstands at old Yankee Stadium, a section reached previously by only two individuals:
Jimmie Foxx and Frank Howard.
"I remember it like it was yesterday.
As I was going around second base, I looked up to where the ball landed and thought to myself that I’d probably never hit another ball like that again.
And I never did.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime swing.
Later they told me it was one of the three longest home runs ever hit in Yankee Stadium.…
The ‘House that Ruth Built."
"Super Joe" Charboneau.
After winning the American League ROY award in 1980, his career quickly flamed out amidst injuries, specifically a back and pelvis ailment that never properly healed.
Joe Charboneau has two brief scenes in the film:
"The Natural."
The most notable is him lined up with his Knights teammates before a game for the National Anthem.
"I’m going to lead the Southern League in batting."
Joe Charboneau, in his first interview as a member of the Chattanooga Lookouts in 1979.
Joe made good on his boast, batting .352, 21 HR, 78 RBI in 109 games.
"Making it to the big leagues was the highlight for me.
Baseball was good back then.
It was relatively a job.
You played for the love of the game and you didn't make a lot of money.
There were fewer teams and better pitching.
It was harder to make it.
It was a pure game.
You could still borrow money all the time.
I was the one doing the borrowing.
We were that intimate.
That close.
I can't imagine guys doing that now.
That's how we hung out.
We were making $125 bucks a game.
It puts things in perspective.
I used to borrow money from Len Barker;
20 bucks all the time.
I saw him recently and Len said that he claimed me on his income tax return."

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

Little league parents yelling swing at pitches in the dirt bruh.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

I love when a player gets hot like that in October bruh

[MLB @MLB]

OTD 8 years ago, Brock Holt became the first player to hit for the cycle in Postseason history!

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

I need the team photographer working on my love life too.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Glasnow spotted Meghan Murphy in the crowd at a Rays game in 2021, asked the team photographer to zoom in, and the two have been together ever since.

Not the worst use of a stadium camera.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

I know I'd still be out there taking swings. Can't turn it off.

[Curt Hogg @CyrtHogg]

A few Padres are out on the field trying to hit a target on the wall 2+ hours after their season ended.

One is Joe Musgrove. The other is Fernando Tatis Jr.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

I love when the whole field hollers foul before it lands.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

Finally got this thing hauled off. What a damn afternoon.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

That 1/1 card is cold as hell, I can't lie.

[Sports Card Investor @SportsCardInv]

Jacob Misiorowski finally picked up a football card (kinda) 😂👀

Misiorowski traded his game-worn jersey and cleats to a group of collectors for his own 2026 Topps Chrome Sapphire Edition Image Variation Padparadscha, the 1/1 card of him throwing a football.

The jersey and cleats were enough to seal the deal, and both sides walked away happy 🤝

🎥: @mojosportsllc

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

Man got back on the mound with a baseball leg. Respect.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

Scheduled to pitch for the "55th Fighter Group" in England during WWII, but as his plane was shot down, he radioed his fellow pilots:
"Tell the boys I won’t be back for the game." After his plane crashed, he was captured, held in a POW camp and had his right leg amputated by a POW doctor.
Bert Shepard’s recovery and running so impressed a POW camp doctor, that he asked Shepard to demonstrate his mobility for the hospital staff.
After WWII, on the day that he officially signed with the Washington Senators, Bert Shepard caught a cab and returned to "Ward 49" at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was fitted for a new artificial leg;
His "Baseball leg".
"I got an awful lot of publicity right away. That sort of helped me to stay with the ball club until I could prove myself.
I pitched several exhibition games and got ‘em out each time."
His first MLB game box score after the war.....
5 1/3 innings, three hits, one walk, one hit batter, two strikeouts and one earned run. "The Boston Globe" called it:
"By far the most inspiring performance by a limbless veteran of WWII."
Bert Shepard remains the only player to have ever played in the major leagues on an artificial leg.
Late in his life, when Bert Shepard was in his 70's, he said he often wondered:
"Who carried me from the wreck?" and "Who saved my life?"
Little did he know that around the same time a British businessman, who knew of Bert Shepard's legend, went on a hunting trip to Hungary.
There he met a fellow hunter, a retired doctor named Ladislaus Loidl, who told a story of how he had once rescued a wounded American flyer from his downed plane.
Loidl recalled that his wife had made a dress out of the airman’s parachute, and remembered reading the name Bert Shepard on the pilot’s dog tags.
The British hunter suggested Loidl contact Shepard.
He did!
In May of 1993, the two men met at the doctor’s home in Austria, 49 years after their first meeting on a German battlefield.
"I prayed for this.
And after half a century, my dream has incredibly come true."
Bert Sheppard.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

Jake came through right when they needed him, let's go Padres!

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

JAKE CRONENWORTH GIVES THE PADRES THE LEAD RIGHT BACK!

That's his first hit since Game 1 of the Wild Card round 🔥

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

I rather sweat copper than use them push fittings.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

All these points got cycling looking like a whole damn math class.

[Joseph Whiteley @joewhiteley0711]

📩T30 Rankings Battle - Everything You Need To Know🧵
When Grand Tour invites are at stake, every point counts. Euskaltel in Algeria, Li Ning caught in the crossfire, Bardiani & MBH looking over their shoulder & major uncertainty over Picnic's future, here is a full guide below⤵️

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

That pitch would have me ducking from the couch bruh

[Evil Empire @octoberstanton]

If Aaron Judge ever swung at this pitch he would have to pay extra security to guard his house at night

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

A little chain grease on your hands ain't hurting nobody.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

@CWolfPGH I need a full season of Cruz so bad

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

Ben Rice is on one tonight. Baseball is crazy bruh.

[Talkin' Yanks @TalkinYanks]

Ben Rice's second home run of the game and fourth of the postseason

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

I rather have one handle on the bathroom sink than two knobs.

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

@BrendanKutyNJ I'd be down to see him at second next year

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

I need Ganna on Lidl-Trek, that team would be cold as hell.

[Dnlbenson @dnlbenson]

Cycling Transfers: Ganna’s move from Netcompany Ineos to Lidl-Trek is ‘50-50’, but confidence in the German team grows 🚨

Would the deal allow the British team to bolster their chances of a Paul Seixas bid?

https://t.co/uVjIYyai4j

[Josh Wood @Wrenchy76]

Remco on one right now, nobody can touch that.

[Cycling Statistics 📊 @StatsOnCycling]

📊👑King of Championships: 🇧🇪Remco Evenepoel.

🏆Victory in different international championship events* (max = 6):
All 6 events: 🇧🇪Evenepoel

2 different: 🇸🇮Pogačar, 🇸🇰Sagan, 🇬🇧Wiggins, 🇨🇭Cancellara, 🇮🇹Bettini, 🇩🇪Ullrich, 🇪🇸Induráin, 🇪🇸Olano, 🇳🇱Kuiper, 🇮🇹Baldini