re: Who is the Baw of all Baws in sports history?

John Kruk

Bobby Layne. Played games for the Lions hungover and apparently a few times totally blitzed.

Kind of surprised no one has mentioned LSU great and super bowl champ Devin White.

“He bought his first horse, Ricky Bobby, with $500 he got from his grandfather.”

I mean anyone that owned a horse named Ricky Bobby and won a super bowl is a serious contender.

Ben McDonald

Ran the ‘84 Daytona 500 with a concussion, had his eyes taped open, and wearing a flak jacket because of messed up rib cartilage. Won at Richmond the following week.

One nut Kruk is definitely a Baw.

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John Kruk

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First guy that popped into my mind. Looked him up to remember where he was from and ran across a hell of a story.

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In October 1987, Kruk rented a house in San Diego with two other men: Roy Plummer, a high school friend, and Vernon (Jay) Hafer, an acquaintance of Plummer's.[4] They socialized and partied together, with Plummer almost always picking up the check.[4] Unbeknownst to Kruk, who moved out in November to play winter ball in Mexico, Plummer was funding the group's lifestyle by moonlighting as an armed robber, with Hafer serving as his getaway driver.[4] The FBI informed Kruk of his roommates' criminal activities during spring training in February 1988, approaching him before batting practice with a photo of Plummer taken during a bank robbery.[4] According to the FBI, Plummer believed that Kruk had turned him in to the police, and Kruk lived in fear of reprisal until Plummer was apprehended on September 19, 1988.[4] Kruk has stated that the ongoing stress from the episode negatively affected his on-field performance that season

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Boo Weekley is a great one. Once said something along the lines of “I’d rather be a pro fisherman or hunter but it doesn’t pay like golf”

Treylon Burks hog hunts with a knife if that counts.