Gunnison Valley News | 1926-09-02 | Page 2 | DeGroof Removed Spikes during Lighting Storm

DeGroof Removed Spikes During Lightning Storm Red Roche tells this one: Back in 1916 he was a member of the Scran-ton Scran-ton team and Rube DeGroof was one of the outfielders. In a game against Wilkes-Barre one day, a terrific lightning light-ning storm broke out of what looked like a clear sky. In the midst of it. DeGroof called time out. and sitting down in center field, removed his shoes. He was still shoeless when he came to bat, and inquiry was made as to why he was pulling the Joe Jackson. "Well," said Defioof. "I came near getting mine once before from lightning light-ning in the O.-P. league. I'm not taking any chances on my spikes attracting at-tracting that stuff and the Great Umpire Um-pire is not going to call me out for not thinking."