His English was fast and loose but his fastball was faster. There was only one Dizzy Dean.

His arm blown out, his career finished, Tommy John tried the surgery that led to a thousand comebacks.

When the “bad break” ended his career — and soon his life — he stepped up to the plate and showed true class. (As seen in “The Pride of the Yankees.”)

When the Massachusetts team went South, its star black player came face-to-face with Jim Crow. And guess what the whole team did for Bunny?

Baseball was a fading relic. Then a Chaplinesque college kid put on a chicken suit.