Did Schoolboy Rowe have a hand made of baseballs?

Schoolboy Rowe's real name was Lynwood, but they called him "Schoolboy" because he was just 15 years old when he started playing on a men's semi-pro team in Arkansas. The Tigers signed him to a professional contract when he was 22, and he made his MLB debut in 1933 at the age of 23.

That year, he pitched 19 games and won seven. The next, he won 16 games in a row, with a 24-8 record for the season. The year after that, he threw six shutouts and the Tigers won the World Series. He was a righty with excellent control, leading the AL in strikeout-to-walk ratio in '34 and '35. Plus, he was a pitcher who could hit -- he finished his 15-year career with 909 plate appearances and a .263 batting average.

Maybe he was so successful because baseball was just an integral part of who he was. No, literally. Like, it was a part of his physical body. Just look at that photo above and tell us that his hand isn't made of baseballs.

Fine, you can choose to believe us or not, but we'll see who's right when Rowe's new biopic hits theaters: