Baseball needs characters. The game is made better by those colorful personalities that live like they’re just lucky to be playing ball for a livin’.
Peter Moylan lived like that because, well, he was a bit lucky to be a professional baseball player. Don’t get me wrong, he was a terrific talent, but sometimes you need skill and a bit of happenstance to make your dreams come true. Moylan signed with the Twins as a 17-year old out of Australia, but after two disappointing seasons and some torn ligaments in his ankle, he was let go. He returned home to work odd jobs - he was a pool plumber, he sold commercial pest control, he tried to get a job with a Japenese security company.