Life and Times of Rusty Bridges
A Time Line
1933 - Russel "Rusty" Aloicious Bridges was born to Russel Sr. and Ho Tran Li in Seoul, Korea
1938 - was brought to states by father after mother's mysterious drowning at a bukkake party
1939 - enrolled at Plimpton Elementary School in Plimpton, ND
1943 - took first steps
1944 - began working at their father/son par-3 golf course and driving range
1945 - drafted to first Little League team
- broke every record in Plimpton Little League history
1948 - was chosen first overall in the Plimpton Babe Ruth draft
- played just one season of Babe Ruth before being asked to play on the Plimpton High
School Varsity team (he was in 6th grade and only 15 years of age)
1949 - broke every high school baseball record in the state of North Dakota as a freshman
1950 - broke his own records
1951 - broke his own records
1952 - broke his own records
1953 - broke his own records
1954 - broke all his own records (.723 lifetime average, 225 HR, 875 RBI, 207 SB, 0 SO)
1955 - was drafted out of high school, did not attend college
- spent just one day in the minors before being called up
- his career minor league stats = 5/5, 5 HR, 10 RBI
- hit homeruns in his first 6 major league career at-bats (all were grand slams)
1956 - started his second season in the majors on a 0-345 slump due in part to his only vice,
sexual encounters with minors
- dubbed the "Michael Jackson of Major League Baseball" by his peers, he never recovered
1957 - retired due to various sexually transmitted diseases, and a pending mopery case
1980 - came back on the scene when he was hired by an independent league team as bat boy
1981 - was fired because of sexually harrassing the manager's 10 year-old son
1982 - imprisoned for multiple counts of child molestation
1989 - enshrined in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame (Note: Pete Rose is still not in)
1994 - died in prison as a result of irreparable anal wounds from repeated prison rape
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