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TIL Wilbur Snapp, who was a stadium organist for the Clearwater Phillies and for the Philadelphia Phillies in spring training, was ejected from a game at Jack Russell Stadium in 1985 after playing "Three Blind Mice" in response to what he thought was a bad call from the umpire.

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