Master Bates's Favorite Athlete of All-Time

Wally Backman, fired by the Arizona Diamondbacks after three days, is now working his way back into the majors by managing the South Georgia Peanuts in the independent South Coast League.
Filmmaker John Fitzgerald is following the Peanuts around hoping to sell a reality series about the team, called "Playing for Peanuts."

In a possibly related development, Backman was ejected from a game after dropping several F-bombs on [the umpire] and kicking dirt on home plate. Then Backman started tossing equipment onto the field. Not only did he throw 22 bats onto the grass, he also emptied a bucket of baseballs down the third base line.

The situation was made worse by the fact that Backman's foul language was clearly audible since there were only a handful of fans left in the stadium. Some of those fans were, in fact, children.