MLB: Ten Most Bizarre Injuries in Baseball History
By David Hill
3. Glenallen Hill fights imaginary spiders
Typically, when I am fighting foes that no one else can see, it either involves mixing various substances or complete insanity. For Blue Jays slugger Glenallen Hill, it involved a nightmare and a broken glass table.
Remembered as a muscular player who would hit prodigious home runs, and not much else, Hill has gone down in MLB history with one of the more bizarre injuries ever. During a nightmare about spiders, Hill began sleepwalking and fighting his arachnid foes, leading him to fall into a glass coffee table. He fell onto the table, suffering several cuts, before falling down the stairs in his haste to escape the creatures.
As it turned out, Hill had a severe phobia of spiders. Naturally, this incident was met with quite a lot of scepticism, because who would believe that someone would cause that much damage to themselves battling invisible insects. Hill then invited those who refused to believe him to his house, where they could witness the damage themselves.
It was really a bizarre situation with a fun story. Of course, with this being baseball, Hill earned the nickname ‘SpiderMan’ because of his battle, although the humor may have been lost on him. It is, however, better than other nicknames he could have received based on his play, as watching Hill in the field was once described as “akin to watching a gaffed haddock surface for air.”
If you ever end up with Glenallen Hill spending the night at your place, make sure that the glass tables are in the other room.
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