Red Sox rookie Clarence Blethen thought he looked older and meaner if he took his false teeth out when he pitched. He forgot to put them back in his mouth when he was batting. While sliding into second base to break up a double play, his own teeth bit himself in the butt.
Rickey Henderson allegedly missed several games in August due to frostbite.
Ken Griffey Jr.
missed a game after his cup slipped and pinched a testicle.
Ken Griffey Jr. also got a sore back lifting boxes.
Reliever Steve Sparks dislocated his shoulder while trying to tear a phone book in half.
Denny McLain's strange baseball injury is very mysterious. One night Denny McLain went to bed completely healthy. The next night McLain woke up with four dislocated toes.
Freddie Fitzsimmons was sitting in a rocking chair sleeping when he crushed his own fingers underneath the chair. Maybe he also dislocated Denny McLain's toes.
Outfielder Dustan Mohr strained his groin while trying to get out of the dugout for a celebration for another player's home run.
Reliever Joey Eischen broke his arm jumping into the air to field a ground ball.
Adam Eaton missed a start in 2001 after stabbing himself with a paring knife while attempting to open a DVD box.
Charlie Hough broke his pinky finger while shaking hands.
Mickey Tettleton went on the DL with a severe case of athlete's foot - caused by tying his shoes too tight. Jose Cardenal missed a game in 1972 because he was kept awake all night by crickets chirping in his hotel room.In 1998, Cleveland's Brian Giles missed a few games due to spider bites.
Moises Alou injured his knee in 1999 by falling off his treadmill. When almost ready to return in 2000, he re-injured it by running over his son with his bicycle. He missed over a year.
Jose Cardenal also missed a game in 1974, because he couldn't blink. He swore his eyes were stuck open.
Bob Feller scalded himself with 200-degree water after he lost control of the hose in a whirlpool. He scalded himself from the waste down, and couldn't do anything for a week.
Russ Davis missed a game after he slept wrong and awoke with a sore shoulder.Twins farmhand David Foster was knocked out for the season when a lightning strike through a phone line zapped him while he was making a call.
Pitcher Steve Foster injured his shoulder knocking over milk bottles during a segment with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show."
Wade Boggs missed several games after straining his back while pulling on his cowboy boots.
Paul Molitor dislocated a knuckle when it got stuck in another player's glove.Milwaukee's Dave Nilsson missed part of this season with Ross River Fever, a mosquito-borne virus that annually affects 200 out of Australia's 17 million residents.
Twins general manager Terry Ryan required dozens of stitches when he was scouting a game and a bat flew out of the hitter's hands, sailed through a space in the backstop and struck him in the forehead.
Pitcher Jeff Juden had a start early in the 1994 season pushed back after getting an infection from a tattoo.
Outfielder Bret Barberie missed a game when he accidentally rubbed chili juice in his eye.
Ken Griffey Jr. missed a game after his protective cup slipped and pinched a testicle.
Doc Gooden missed a start when Coleman accidentally hit him with a golf club in the Mets' clubhouse.
Mark Portugal missed a start because of food poisoning from eating bad mahi-mahi.
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food poisoning.Pitcher Steve Sparks dislocated his shoulder while tearing a phone book in half, as he was trying to emulate a motivational speaker.
Reliever Larry Anderson strained a rib muscle getting out of a Jucuzzi.
Pitcher Ted Power pulled a hamstring jumping off the bullpen bench to join a brawl.
Kent Hrbek missed the final 10 games of the 1990 season when he sprained an ankle while wrestling with a clubhouse attendant.
Florida's Randy Veres hurt his hand pounding on a hotel room wall trying to get the people in the next room to quiet down.
Dennis Martinez injured his arm tossing his luggage onto the team bus. He was diagnosed with Samsonitis.
Chris Brown missed a game with a strained eyelid after sleeping on an eye a funny way.Terry Harper (Atlanta, OF) injured his shoulder after giving another player a high five.
Greg Harris (Texas, pitcher) injured his shoulder trying to flick sunflower seeds into the stands from the bullpen.Baltimore's Mark Smith was hurt when he stuck his hand in an air conditioner to see why it wasn't working properly.
Glenallen Hill missed a few games after falling out of his bed while having an arachnophobic dream about spiders. He dreamt that spiders were devouring him, jumped off his bed, fell through a glass table, and crawled through the shards of glass.
Shortstop Rey Quinones wasn't available as a pinch hitter as he was in the clubhouse playing Nintendo. (It's not an injury, but it's pretty funny!)