Marlins coach keeps wet lettuce under his helmet
Baseball people are so weird sometimes.
The Marlins and Braves met Monday afternoon for the first game of a day-night doubleheader, and it was your prototypical Atlanta summer day … hot and humid.
In that kind of environment, players and coaches will look for creative ways to stay cool - particularly when the temperature on the field can near triple digits. Nobody was more creative than Marlins first base coach Perry Hill.
The dude wore wet lettuce under his helmet because it was an old trick that Pete Rose used to stay cool, apparently.
Hill was shown during the broadcast applying fresh lettuce to his helmet. He returned to the clubhouse between each inning to reload on the wet lettuce. That all just seemed so weird. Lettuce, of course, gets soggy and falls apart in the heat.
Hill told the Fox Sports broadcast that he preferred cabbage but settled for lettuce. Again, that all seems like a tedious exercise for a coach who just stands around for a few minutes at a time.
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