Performance Enhancing Cabbage is Banned by Baseball

This is definitely one of those, Only in Korea, stories:

South Korea’s baseball authorities have banned a star pitcher from wearing frozen cabbage leaves in his cap to keep cool during games.

The Korean Baseball Association met in special session after cabbage leaves twice fell from Park Myung-Hwan’s cap live on television.

Apparently Park got the idea because Babe Ruth used to do the same thing. However, Park is not Babe Ruth and Korean baseball has decided to end his cabbage wearing days with one exception:

After two hours, the committee ruled that cabbage was a “foreign substance” and therefore banned from the field.

Players may now only wear cabbage by presenting a doctor’s note in advance.

So how in the heck do you go about getting a prescription to wear cabbage?

Jeff in Busan and the Japundit have more on the cabbage scandal that has rocked the Korean baseball league. Yes I’m being sarcastic.