A Fisherman's Tale

We all heard about John Odom last year, but how many of you have you ever heard of Ken Krahenbuhl?

There's no particular reason that you should have, unless you followed independent minor league baseball ten years ago (or watched the MLB Network earlier today). Apparently, in 1998, Krahenbuhl -- six years removed from his brief stint as a minor league Cubs pitcher -- was traded from the now defunct Oxnard Pacific Suns to the also defunct Greenville Bluesmen for $1,000 and "a player to be named later." That "player to be named later" was 10 pounds of catfish.

And if that wasn't strange enough, in his first start as a Bluesmen, Krahenbuhl tossed a perfect game.

(and just in case you hadn't heard of John Odom, he is an independant league baseball player who was traded last season for ten baseball bats because he couldn't get a worker's visa to play for the Canadian baseball team who signed him)