Weird connections between baseball and other areas, most of which have nothing to do with baseball. All of these are true:

• Victor Conte, steroid guru, was a member of the band Tower of Power for a few years in the seventies and eighties.
• Todd Zeile is a direct descendant of President John Adams.
• Reggie Jackson was considered for the role of Geordi LaForge in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Umpire Cal Hubbard is the only man in the baseball and pro football Halls of Fame.
• Hugo Bezdek is the only man to manage a MLB team (Pirates from 1917-1919) and NFL team (Cleveland Rams, 1937-38). He also coached college football, college basketball and college baseball at one time or another.
• Casey Candaele, who played for the Expos, Astros and Indians during the 80s and 90s, was the son of Helen Callaghan, a player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
• Ted Williams was John Glenn’s wingman in the Korean War.
• Pitcher Trevor Bell, who pitched parts of the previous three seasons with the Angels but who is no longer in the majors, is the grandson of the original Bozo the Clown.
• Todd Helton was replaced by Peyton Manning at QB at the University of Tennessee and ended up being his backup. Seth Smith was Eli Manning’s backup at Ole Miss. Helton and Smith were both on the Rockies from 2007 to 2011.
• The Albuquerque Isotopes take their name from a episode of The Simpsons where the local baseball team, the Springfield Isotopes, almost moved to Albuquerque. Although to be fair, New Mexico certainly does have connections with nuclear isotopes.