BUZZ BEAMER.

This article from Sports Illustrated Kids introduces a ghost player named "Farmboy" Potts, who played baseball during the deadball era. Farmboy explains that during his time, baseball players were not paid enough to live on their baseball salaries year-round, so they had to work during the offseason. Farming was Farmboy's chosen offseason job, which helped him stay in shape and develop his skills. He shares some of the unconventional training methods he used, such as stacking hay bales for strength, annoying a bull for running practice, and tossing rutabagas for throwing practice. The article concludes with Farmboy jokingly mentioning sharpening his cleats on an axe grinder, although the narrator suggests that wouldn't work on rubber cleats. [Extracted from the article]