On Sunday night, WWE held a pay-per-view show called “Payback’ and the star was a hulking beast of a man named Braun Strowman , who is billed at 6-foot-8, 385 pounds. Now that the people who take themselves far too seriously are worked up that I mentioned wrestling on a baseball blog, let us segue into our loose baseball tie. Softball is similar enough, right? Strowman’s real name is Adam Scherr and his father is Rick Scherr. That is, Rick “Crusher” Scherr, known as possibly the greatest slow-pitch softball player of all-time. He’s estimated to have hit over 1,800 home runs, some of them plenty long enough to have left any MLB stadium. Some grainy footage is available on YouTube. Here’s a quick
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