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Thursday, July 03, 2008 --- 100 days ago http://deadspin.com/5021739/dave-rozemas-infamous-karate-kick-immortalized-in-bo
 It may be a short week for Deadspin, but it's a big week for minor league baseball promotions ... so drop your pants and fire a rocket for Minor Enterprise. The glorious career of former pitcher Dave Rozema is cherished and studied by every drunkard, reprobate, fuckoff, ne're-do-well, rascal, rotter, tosspot, brawler, bounder, lout, louse, screwup, barfly, dipsomaniac, tippler, pug and toker who ever followed the Detroit Tigers. And by many, many other baseball fans as well. This is a man whose exploits nearly defy description, both on the field and off. But for all of his deeds and misdeeds, the crowning moment had to be on May 14, 1982, during a benches-clearing brawl between the Tigers and Minneosta Twins. That's when, in the opening moments of the melee, Rozema charged from the dugout and attempted to deliver a flying karate kick at the Twins' John Castino. He missed, of course; injuring his leg so badly in the process that he had to be removed from the field on a stretcher. Rozema, who had a 3-0 record and a 1.63 ERA at the time, ended up on the DL and missed the remainder of the season; ruining what was shaping up as the finest season of his career. Any serious Tigers fan can tell you all about it, and probably give you a blow-by-blow from video accounts that have circulated on the Internet (until recently, when YouTube took them down on the orders of Major League Baseball). But now you can relive the magical moment with the ... |
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