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unusual facts about midget



A. J. Fike

He finished runner-up in USAC Midget Copper World Classic at Phoenix in 2001.

Adam McQuaid

McQuaid played major midget hockey in his hometown of Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island for the Cornwall Thunder before playing major junior hockey with the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for four seasons.

ARDC

American Racing Drivers Club, a midget car racing sanctioning body in the East Coast of the United States

Art Scholl

In the mid-1960s he was a professor and head of the Department of Aeronautics at San Bernardino Valley College and an experienced pilot of midget air racers.

Basil Charles Godfrey Place

On 22 September 1943 at Kåfjord, North Norway, Lieutenant Place, commanding Midget Submarine X.7, and another lieutenant (Donald Cameron) commanding Midget Submarine X.6, carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz.

Bensen Mid-Jet

The Bensen Mid-Jet (a pun on "Midget jet") was a small helicopter developed by Igor Bensen in the United States in the early 1950s in the hope of attracting the interest of the United States Navy.

Bill Cantrell

Willard Cantrell (1914–1986), American midget and sprint car racer

Bill Zaring

Zaring raced big cars (now known as Indy Cars) from 1948 to 1955, which were big when compared to midget cars.

Bobby East

East competed full-time in the USAC National Midget Series where he was the champion in 2004 driving the Steve Lewis Racing #9.

Brian Salcido

Salcido moved to Minnesota to play for Shattuck-Saint Mary's high school, noted for its midget AAA hockey program.

Capital District Selects

After several seasons as an independent midget team, the CD Selects joined the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL) in 1998 as a part-time member, joining full-time in 1999.

Ed Wheelan

For William Randolph Hearst, he created the strip Midget Movies in 1918, but he left in 1920 after a dispute with Hearst.

Frankie Schneider

Frankie Schneider (born August 11, 1926) of Lambertville, New Jersey was a stock car, modified, midget, and sprint car racer.

George Brasno

George Brasno and his sister Olive Brasno started out as a brother and sister midget act in a partnership with Buster Shaver's vaudeville act.

Not much is known about George Brasno other than George Brasno and his sister Olive Brasno were first recognized as a brother and sister midget singing team in a partnership with Buster Shaver's vaudeville act.

Half Pint Brawlers

The show drew up much controversy and was met with protest from the Little People of America for the Brawlers' repetitive use of the word midget.

It's Sleazy

Soon after the messy "resolution" between her and her son, their next host, Wally Lipsmear, a now mentally insane and gender confused post-surgery midget and former MTV "V.J.", given the "Giuliani" treatment upon refusing the airing of GWAR's music videos for not having a "negro" in the band, is immediately crushed by debris by long lost sojourning Scumdog Scrouta Moon, who walks in on set through a wall.

J. C. Agajanian

His race organizer expertise spanned the country and he became the first race organizer to present 250 United States Automobile Club events, ranging from Midget races like the traditional Turkey Night Grand Prix at various Southern California race tracks, still promoted by the family to this day, to numerous Championship Dirt Car races at state fairgrounds tracks.

John Elliott Smart

Lieutenant Commander John Elliott "Jack" Smart DSO OBE VRD (1 March 1916 – 3 February 2008) was an officer in the Royal Navy commanding one of the midget submarines that attacked the German cruiser Lützow and the Japanese cruiser Takao during the Second World War.

Josh Wise

In his rookie year Wise captured 2 wins at Madera Speedway and one at Stockton 99, beating midget legend Sleepy Tripp to the checkers.

Kåfjord, Alta

During the Second World War, the German battleship Tirpitz used Kåfjord as a harbour, and she was damaged there by British aircraft and by Royal Navy midget submarines in Operation Source.

Little People of America

The statement was made in direct response to an episode of Celebrity Apprentice which featured a multiple uses of the word "midget" and a justification of it by one of the celebrities, Jesse James.

Loch a' Chàirn Bhàin

It was the site of the World War Two midget submarine training base, Port HHZ.

Martin Cilia

After the Fonzarellis, he went on to play in Dave Warner's Sensational Sixties and then with Midget and the Farrellys who were extremely popular in Fremantle throughout the Americas Cup.

Mummy's Dummies

Mummy's Dummies takes place during the reign of King Rootentootin, played by the rather tall and rotund Vernon Dent, but in the film We Want Our Mummy, Rootinrootin is said to be a midget.

Ray Staszak

Staszak played high school hockey at Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia, and also participated in midget hockey in his native Bucks County.

Small Montana

Although he never won a world title, he defeated Manuel Ortiz, Midget Wolgast, Tony Marino, Joe Tei Ken, Speedy Dado, Tommy Forte, Augie Curtis, Pat Palmer, Frankie Jarr, Eugene "Tuffy" Pierpont and Antol "Tony" Kocsis.

Sports Climax

This segment covers bizarre, off-the-wall sports moments like the Chicago White Sox inserting midget Eddie Gaedel to bat in a Major League Baseball game, Manute Bol boxing Refrigerator Perry in a Celebrity Boxing match or Minnesota Vikings player, Jim Marshall running a fumble back in the wrong direction.

Steve Kinser

During his many tours of Australia racing Sprint cars, Kinser won many feature races but January 4, 1986 he swapped his Sprinter for a VW-powered Midget (called a Speedcar in Australia) and won the 38th Australian Speedcar Grand Prix at Sydney's Liverpool Speedway.

The Stand In

Kramer has got a job as a stand-in actor, in the series All My Children, along with his friend Mickey Abbott (Danny Woodburn), a "little person" who is offended by the term "midget".

Tiny Troubles

Jerry Maren - Light-fingered Lester/midget dressed like a baby

Tyler Reddick

Reddick began his racing career at the age of four, competing in Outlaw Midget cars; soon after he was also competing in sprint cars.

William Veeck, Sr.

Veeck was also the father of Bill Veeck, who is best known for his time at the reins of the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians, and for sending the midget Eddie Gaedel to bat while owning the St. Louis Browns.


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