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TIL Cleveland Indians player Jason Grimsley, crawled through the stadium’s ventilation system to get to the umpires’ office to retrieve a doctored bat. He replaced the illicit bat with an undoctored one. unaware of the fact that said teammate’s name was engraved on the bat.

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