Apparently there aren't age restrictionsfor ejections. At least two bat boys have been thrown out of profe sional baseball games. MORE: | June 24, 1948: Salisbury Cardinals manager Gene Corbett Alim McNeill Jerseys wasbooted from a Cla s D Eastern Shore League game and later used 13-year-old bat boy Paul Murrell as a me senger, instructing the kid to tellan umpire to "get in the game and keep your eyes open." Murrell relayed the me sage, got ejected too andsulked with Corbett in the clubhouse, according to the . There was another dugout detention 36 years later. May 27, 1984: Fourteen-year-oldPortland Beavers bat boy Sam Morris waskicked out Detroit Lions Hats for refusing to pick upa chair. Portland manager Lee Elia chucked a folding chair intoright field during an animated post-ejection tirade. Umpire Pam Potesma was equally mad andrefused toclean up after Elia, ordering Morris to pick up the chair. Morrisdeclined out of loyalty to Elia, so Potesma ejected Morris too. "There is one benefit from it," Morris told the A sociated Pre s from his junior high school. "Now all the players know my name." Current Orioles' bench coach and former Portland outfielderalso was ejected in the squabble. Triple-A ejectionscame with$25 fines back then, but the Pacific Coast League Austin Bryant Jerseys made an exception for Morris. "How do you fine a bat boy?"PCL president William Cutlerasked. Will there be another on-deck outlaw someday? Time will Dan Campbell Jerseys tell. Hey, it could be worse, a Bakersfield Dodgers' bat boy got is the broadcaster for the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas, and is on Twitter at . He is also the author of"Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team Names."
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