Reading further, I found out that the benefit was where Honus Wagner set the record for the longest baseball throw. 403 feet 8 inches according to the article, breaking a record set by John Hatfield in 1872, whose throw was just over 400 feet. Not bad for a guy in a ballet costume!
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