3. Professional baseball's early mascots were often BATBOYS-- and more than one was a hunchback. It was not uncommon for the ballplayers to rub the boys' humps for luck at critical times during the game. Possibly the luckiest batboy ever (non-hunchback) was Eddie Bennett. He was with the White Sox in 1919, the Brooklyn Robins (soon to be Dodgers) in 1920 and the New York Yankees from 1921 to 1932. He went six seasons before his team failed to win a pennant. At the end of his career, he had been batboy in nine league pennants and four World Series victories.
4. Students at East Knox County Elementary call themselves the Cougars. What is really interesting is that they live in the tiny Knoxville, Tennessee suburb of Mascot.
--Cooter the Mascot
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