Retro eighties-nineties #MLB did not give a shit manager.
Show me a big league manager who runs batting practice while smoking a cigar & wearing Zubaz pants and I'll show you a two-time World Series winning skipper ⚾️ #1980s#80s
He Told 1,000 Orphans He Was Their Father. He Meant It.
In 1939, after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union divided Poland between them, hundreds of thousands of Polish civilians were deported to Siberian labor camps. When the USSR switched sides in 1941, Stalin agreed to release them. The survivors, skeletal, typhoid-ridden, many of them children who had already lost their parents, made it overland through Central Asia and Afghanistan to the docks at Bombay. The British colonial authorities in India took one look and turned the ship away. Not enough resources. Couldn't set a precedent.
Maharaja Digvijaysinhji of Nawanagar, "Jamsaheb", was a member of the Imperial War Cabinet. He heard about it and was furious. He ordered the ship to dock at his private port at Rozi. Because Nawanagar was a princely state, technically outside direct British jurisdiction, there was little London could do about it. The Maharaja knew exactly what he was doing.
Between 1942 and 1946, he sheltered nearly 1,000 Polish children at Camp Balachadi, a purpose-built settlement near his summer residence on the Gulf of Kutch. He built a chapel, schools, a kindergarten, two medical facilities, a community center, and sporting grounds. He sent three camel loads of gifts at Christmas. He arranged seven Goan cooks to prepare food that wouldn't be too spicy for the children's stomachs. He visited often and told them personally: "You are no longer orphans. I am Bapu — father of all Nawanagarians — and therefore your father too."
When asked what he wanted in return, he gave a single answer: "When Poland is free, name a street after me in Warsaw."
He died in 1966, never seeing it happen. In 2016, the Polish Parliament formally honored him. In the Ochota district of Warsaw today, there is the Square of the Good Maharaja, and a monument. A school in Warsaw bears his name. Polish survivors, the few still living, have returned to Balachadi to lay flowers at the site where they were given new childhoods.
He leveraged a technicality to save a thousand lives and only wanted a street in return. He got a square.
Yes, this exact process is used in real orthopedic oncology surgery.
It's called liquid nitrogen-treated tumor-bearing autograft (or recycled autograft) for limb-salvage reconstruction after resecting malignant bone tumors like osteosarcoma.
The resected bone segment is frozen in liquid nitrogen (~ -196°C) to kill cancer cells while preserving the bone's structure and strength as a perfect biological match, then thawed in saline and reimplanted with fixation (plate/screws).
It's been performed for years in centers in Japan, India, and elsewhere, with good functional outcomes in studies. It's one effective option alongside prostheses or allografts, especially for cost and biology. Recent cases (e.g., South Africa 2026) confirm it's actively used.