The Giant Clapper
The Guinness Book of World Records listed him as the loudest clapper in the world. He could scare car alarms, shatter glass, and rupture ear drums (though he would never do such a thing) with a single clap, so long as the temperature was below 80 degrees and it wasn’t too humid.
Were his hands particularly large? Yes. They were enormous! And so was he at a respectable height of 7 feet 4 inches and a weight of 488 pounds with a size 17 shoe.
Gloves could not fit him. Not a single glove mass produced today could fit his mitt. That made gardening hard and baseball fun because he could catch the ball one-handed and throw it at a 120 MPH. He was the star of the New York Mets and helped them win six World Series, but pencils broke between his fingertips and pens splattered ink. Food never had enough calories, and all his shirts were tailor-made so his hands could get through the sleeves and out the cuffs.
All in all, he was a very tall man, and people liked to point that out to his face and behind his back. He struggled with his image ever since his first growth spurt at age 5 when he shot up from 4’1” to 5’2” and grew a goatee in a single weekend. He liked to be hidden from the world.