Phillip Wellman has enjoyed a 36-year career in professional baseball, first as a prospect in the Braves system and then as a manager for several minor league teams, but he’ll always be remembered for one monumental blowup on June 1, 2007.
Wellman was managing the Double A Mississippi Braves at the time, who were playing the Chattanooga Lookouts that night. Pitcher Kelvin Villa was ejected for using a foreign substance and the rest is history. Wellman charged out of the dugout and expressed his displeasure in a number of creative ways—most memorably by tossing the rosin bag like a grenade at the feet of the umpire.