Baseball Player Ping Bodie Once Won An Eating Contest Against An Ostrich

Today in 1919, one of the strangest moments in the history of professional baseball, when major leaguer Ping Bodie took on an ostrich in an eating contest and won. Plus: a ketchup giant is installing dispensers on the sidewalks outside some of Chicago’s best-loved (and often ketchup-free) hot dog places.  A Yankee, an ostrich and 22 plates of pasta (MLB.com) Ping Bodie (Society for American Baseball Research) Heinz Is Putting Up Ketchup Dispensers To Tempt Chicagoans With Forbidden Condiment (Block Club Chicago) Want more food for thought? Back our show today on Patreon