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History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

The Murder of Eddie Gaedel

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

As an adult, Eddie Gaedel stood just 3'7" and weighed 65 pounds. Although bullied most of his life, Eddie became an overnight sensation in 1951 when he became the first "Little person" to appear in a Major League Baseball game.  Eddie would learn that fame has a dark side though, as a few years later he would tragically die under mysterious circumstances.

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome once again to History Dweeps.

0:07.3

I am Tim.

0:08.3

Welcome to the podcast where we take a lighthearted look at the dark side of history.

0:13.4

The topic of our podcast today is the murder of Eddie Goodell.

0:18.0

Eddie was a little person.

0:20.2

Is that the appropriate? I believe it was a dwarf, Timmy. It was a dwarf. Midget. Not a midget. No, that's politically incorrect, Colonel. No, midgets don't mind being called midgets? I think they do. I think it's a thing. But anyway, Ed, take it a survey? What the fuck do you know? How many do you know?

0:37.7

You know, I got a strange thing.

0:39.5

You're not here?

0:40.4

Yeah, you're not here.

0:41.1

You're not here.

0:42.5

All right.

0:43.3

Yeah, let me do the introductions and then you can yammer.

0:46.6

I don't know how I'm going to say that, but okay.

0:49.8

This is a story of Eddie Goodale.

0:51.7

Eddie was the only little person to appear in a Major League Baseball game.

1:00.4

And this isn't about really about that.

1:03.6

So if you're not a baseball fan, still stick with this story because it's an interesting story.

1:08.5

It's more about his life.

1:10.0

And Eddie met an untimely demise, Colonel. He was murdered. So we're going to talk about... Or he just gave away a whole story. I know. We're going to talk about Eddie's life and his... I don't know who picked this topic. His sad, sad ending. It's what I want to know. It's kind of a cool topic. You'll like it.

1:28.1

I doubt it.

1:29.0

Had you read it, you would probably know that.

1:30.7

And you read the script.

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