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Another game on the mound bought him a fishing break
After winning a seventeen-inning game for Milwaukee in 1900, Rube Waddell was offered a three-day fishing vacation if he pitched the second game of the doubleheader. He threw a complete-game shutout to win that one too, then headed to Pewaukee Lake to fish.
Two victories came before the trip to the lake.
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