Alright, let’s talk about this Carlos May thing I spent some time on recently. It wasn’t exactly planned, just kinda happened.
Started off simple enough. I was digging through some old baseball stuff, you know, just reminiscing. Came across a mention of Carlos May, and it sparked something. I remembered hearing about him, but couldn’t quite place the details. So, I thought, okay, let’s do a quick search, refresh the memory.
Diving In
Well, “quick” turned into a bit of a project. First, I just did the usual online searches. Found the basic stats, teams he played for – White Sox, Yankees, Angels. Standard stuff. But then I remembered hearing something specific, something unusual about him. Took me a while scrolling through forums and old articles.
The Real Work Started Here:
- I tried finding specific game highlights. Not the easiest task for players from that era, honestly. Lots of broken links, low-quality clips.
- Then I zeroed in on that story about his thumb. Yeah, the military accident with the mortar misfire back in ’69. Crazy story. Lost part of his thumb but still came back to play, even won Comeback Player of the Year later.
- I started looking for more personal accounts or interviews about that time. That’s where it got tricky. Information felt scattered, sometimes contradictory.
- Spent a good afternoon just cross-referencing dates and details from different sources. You know how it is, trying to piece together the real picture from bits and pieces.
What I Found Out (Sort Of)
It wasn’t about finding some hidden secret, really. It was more about the process. You start looking for one thing, and you end up learning a bunch of other stuff. Found out he was the first guy to wear his last name on the back of his jersey in the AL, apparently because of that ‘MAY’ on his scoreboard graphic looking like the month. Little details like that.
But mostly, I realized how much effort it takes to really dig into someone’s history, especially when they aren’t one of those constantly talked-about legends. You gotta sift through a lot. The info’s out there, but it’s not always nicely packaged.
End Result? Well, I definitely know more about Carlos May now than I did before. It was a practice in patience, I guess. Just following a thread of curiosity. Didn’t change the world, but it filled some time, and I got a better appreciation for the guy’s career and resilience. Sometimes that’s all you get from these little side quests, and that’s alright.
