AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Jerry Levi's Quitting Football
Jerry Levi's, the real Jerry Levi's, was in Texas and he had no intention of quitting professional football. He said his name was Gerald Lee Levi's, and that he was a 23-year-old former soldier from Detroit who had recently married. Embarrassed by their mistake, the Tigers put Gerald Lee on a plane and sent him back to Detroit where the media was waiting on him. The true identity of Gerald Lee Levi’s was eventually revealed to be William Douglas Street, Jr. In 1971, he was posing as a player for the Minnesota Twins when he was arrested at an Orlando hotel for paying with a bad check. A few years later after being released on parole