Minor League Ballplayer Traded for Ten Bats Dies of (Suspicious) Heroin Overdose

I (and Maetenloch) are calling the overdose suspicious. There's no word from the coroner that it's anything but accidental.

Ask the most hard-core baseball fan about John C. Odom and most likely you’ll get a blank stare. Yet millions of people have heard of the slender right-hander.

He was “Bat Man” or “Bat Guy” or “Bat Boy,” the minor league baseball player traded for 10 maple bats.

It became a big joke last May when word of the unusual swap jumped off the sports pages, and the former San Francisco Giants prospect went from pitcher to punch line.

“People are like, ‘I’d kill myself’ and stuff,” Odom said at the time, dismissing any such notion.

Three weeks after the trade, he abruptly left the team.

Six months after the trade, he was dead.

The medical examiner said Odom’s death in Georgia on Nov. 5 at age 26 was an accidental overdose from heroin, methamphetamine, the stimulant benzylpiperazine and alcohol.

In related news, someone just offered me a 30% controlling interest in GM for ten maple bats.

I refused the offer. I'm holding out for heroin, methamphetamine, the stimulant benzylpiperazine and alcohol.

posted by Ace at 05:50 PM

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