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Gaedel's relative has full-sized baseball goals

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Wearing uniform No. 1/8, Eddie Gaedel famously walked on four pitches in his only major league at-bat, on Aug. 19, 1951. AP Photo
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It is one of the most unforgettable, if not one of the most unusual, images in major league baseball history.