[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

(Do you need me to tell y'all the story of Hack Wilson playing RF for the Dodgers in Baker Bowl, or have you read Roger Angell, too?)

Yes, please, because I'm stumped. The only reference I could find was this, which has the following:

Mid-season 1934, Wilson was released by Brooklyn, briefly signed by Philadelphia before he was out of baseball for good. Wilson’s most memorable moment that final season came when he accidentally fielded a ball heaved at the Baker Bowl right field wall by a manager conferencing with his pitcher and fired a perfect throw to second base.

But he would have been playing for the Phillies, not the Dodgers.

EDIT: Okay, wait a minute. Maybe that is it. The problem with bloggers is that a lot of them are not really accurate. Maybe this guy has it down, the way he phrases it:

One of Baker Bowl’s most memorable legends related to the right-field wall is a true one. One afternoon in 1934, Brooklyn pitcher Walter Beck drew the short straw and was given the unwanted assignment of pitching in Philadelphia. When he predictably got lit up, manager Casey Stengel came out to get him; a fed-up Beck took out his anger on the wall by launching a long, sizzling throw off it. At its base, right fielder Hack Wilson—four years and a million drinks removed from his historic 58-homer, 191-RBI campaign of 1930—was using the break to lean against the wall and resume nursing a hangover from the night before. When he heard the clang of Beck’s throw hitting the tin wall, he shook himself into action, retrieved the ball and fired a strike to second—all believing the ball was in play. Beck, to be forever known as “Boom-Boom” as a result of the stunt, suddenly became the second angriest player on the field; from their dugout, the Phillies broke into gut-busting laughter.

So apparently, that happened before Wilson was released by Brooklyn which is definitely not the inference one would get from the first blogger's telling of the story. Also, it was the pitcher who threw the ball, not the manager. Ironically, later that season, Wilson became teammates with the very guys who were yokking it up at his expense that day.