Max Patkin (January 10, 1920 – October 30, 1999) was an American baseball player and clown, best known as the Clown Prince of Baseball (a play on "Crown Prince"). Patkin was the third "officially" crowned Clown Prince of Baseball, after Al Schacht and Jackie Price , though that nickname has also been applied to St. Louis Browns third baseman ...

2018年12月20日 · Max Patkin never made it to the big leagues as a player. But that did not stop him from spending his life entertaining fans and players with his antics as he traveled the country. Patkin became the second “clown prince of baseball” and a fixture on ballfields across the country ever summer for 50 years after his brief playing career ended.

1999年11月1日 · Max Patkin, who made more consecutive appearances on the diamond than Cal Ripken and was thrown out of more games than Earl Weaver in half a century of slapstick as the Clown Prince of Baseball,...

1999年10月31日 · Max Patkin, known as the Clown Prince of Baseball for his goofy antics in an oversized uniform at minor league games, died Saturday. He was 79. The West Philadelphia …

The second "Clown Prince of Baseball," after Al Schacht, Max Patkin performed for 51 years as a baseball clown. After an arm injury curtailed his minor league career, Patkin joined the Navy during World War II .

2024年5月6日 · Four decades before DeHart’s unexpected run-in, another cosmic twist of fate brought together future Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio and a young Navy sailor by the name Max Patkin, who was stationed...

PAOLI, Pa. -- Max Patkin, known as the Clown Prince of Baseball for his goofy antics in an oversized uniform at minor league games, died Saturday. He was 79. Max Patkin's antics became a...

Max Patkin (January 10, 1920 – October 30, 1999) was an American baseball player and clown, best known as the Clown Prince of Baseball. Patkin was the third "officially" crowned Clown Prince of Baseball, after Al Schacht and Jackie Price, though that sobriquet has also been applied to St. Louis Browns third baseman Arlie Latham among others.

2023年10月30日 · Max Patkin, the "Clown Prince of Baseball" and pride of West Philadelphia High School, dies 24 years ago today in Paoli, Pa., at the age of 79. Patkin – believe it or not – once is a pitching prospect in the minors for the Chicago …

A graduate of and star player at West Philadelphia High School, Patkin, as a baseball comedian, was the successor to Al Schact, the first person to mix comedy with baseball in the 1920s. Patkin reached the pinnacle of his storied career and of his popularity with a guest appearance in the major motion picture Bull Durham in 1988.