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 If you shared a common birthdate with Dan Rather or John Keats, you'd probably feel a distinct line to greatness. Throw Vanilla Ice in the mix and you're definitely bound for stardom, right? Maybe, if your name is Steve Trachsel. But, what about our hero?
Steve Trachsel was born on Halloween of 1970 in Oxnard, California. At that moment, Vanilla Ice was a 2 year old devil of a toddler, rappin' and rollin' in the back seat of his momma's ghetto ragtop Bentley. Dan Rather was 39 and working at CBS as a chief correspondant for 60 Minutes. John Keats had been quite still for 149 years! Stevie's parents probably never imagined in their wildest dreams that that ghoolish night that their California son would end up a 6'4" high millionaire ballplayer living in Baltimore, no less!
So, you're probably asking by now, what on earth are the editors at SluggerWily.com getting these titles: "Cursed from birth"? His $3M annual salary isn't exactly poverty, and what's so scary about being born on Halloween anyways? Vanilla Ice might have an opinion, but we don't care. So, what gives? Well, Steve is a right-handed pitcher. Our hero, Slugger Wily Mo, has been designated by management to only face left-handed pitching. Cursed. Most people think having a strong right arm will usually set you up for success, but while Wily Mo sits out today's game, the rest of us will probably disagree. As Halloween-born the Keats once wrote, in To Autum : Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
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