April Fool’s Came Early This Year

In my attempt to find new stuff to write about, I Googled bizarre sports news. Some of the stuff I found was rather weird, while other stuff was pretty funny. The first one I will share with you is about an interesting trade offer. It’s even more bizarre than a player getting traded for a case of beer.

Philadelphia Phillies’ pitcher, Kyle Kendrick, recently found out that instead of making the Major League team’s spring training roster, he was traded for a player named Kobayashi Iwamura. The funny thing was, Iwamura was not a real player. Kendrick claimed he never heard of the player but proceeded to sign paperwork. The media was even in on it because they started asking him questions about the trade.

Well as Kendrick eventually found out, Kobayashi Iwamura, was indeed a fake player. The deal was not real and although Kendrick was upset for a little while, even he had to admit that it was a pretty good prank.

*All of my information can be found at this website. The article was written in February of 2008.