We’re imagining five-year-old Giuliano Stroe has a great future in Hollywood starring in B-level action movies with a cougar-aged Kate Gosselin as his mom. Guinness thinks he’s strong. And look at him do these flips and stuff in this YouTube video.source
12-year-old Jennifer Valdivia caught slugger Ryan Howard’s record-setting 200th home run ball at a Phillies game in July. She offered to give the ball to Howard, with the promise he would show up. He never did. source
Feeling that the potentially-valuable ball was stolen from her. Valdivia and her mother got a lawyer, and this week, in the midst of the Phillies’ playoff run, threatened to sue. The ball was promptly returned. source
Uh, he’s the guy whose record I broke. Not to be disrespectful or anything, but he was before my time.
Phillies slugger Ryan Howard • On the occasion of hitting homer No. 200, a feat that took him just 658 games, or just a hair above four seasons. He doesn’t know the guy whose record he topped, Ralph Kiner, but he should. Why’s that? It’s the third record he’s stolen from the guy who was before his time. • source