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- Old Negro league watchers say Cool Papa
- Bell was the fastest runner in baseball
- history, maybe the fastest athlete who ever
- lived. They created a lot of legends about
- Cool PapaΓÇÖs speed -- some of which are
- surely exaggerations.
-
- How fast was he?
-
- -- They say he could turn off the light and be
- in bed before the room got dark. (He
- actually did this one night because there
- was a short circuit in the wires.)
-
- -- They say he once rounded second base
- and got hit in the leg with his own ground
- ball.
-
-