This story about Cliff Politte via the
Sun Times' Joe Cowley is new to me:
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Neal Cotts had to see it for himself.
So the next day, the
White Sox reliever went into the visiting dugout area at Comerica Park
in Detroit and found the training table that Cliff Politte had turned
into a blocking sled less than 24 hours earlier.
"I tried picking that
table up,'' Cotts recalled. "It was huge. He not only lifted it up, but
he put it through a door. I don't know how he did that.''
Politte may be small, but it's not hard to believe he could do some damage considering this picture was taken just before that incident:
It was a
July 31st game against Detroit, and Politte blew the game on a bases-loaded walk.
Cliff might've cost the Sox the game, but he didn't ruin the day. Shortly after the conclusion of the matinee game, the Sox announced that Kenny Williams
dealt Esteban Loaiza to the New York Yankees for Jose Contreras.