I always thought these two would make great Pretty Good or Chart Party videos, they're also both super obscure so that's fun. Also brace for a wall of text because trying to explain who these two are and why they're interesting
J.D Mcduffie: The record holder for most NASCAR Cup Series starts without a single win at 653 races across 28 years. He spent his entire career as a driver-owner, basically meaning he had no team to rely on for repairs, upgrades or sponsorships for his car. Fairly common when he started in 1963 but as time went on the sport got more popular which meant many teams and owners that could field multiple drivers with big sponsors and the best equipment started popping up. JD pushed on as an independent who used what little race earnings his gained to support his family and to keep his car running. By the 90s the sport was very expensive and engine parts you found in a landfill was not good enough, making JD probably one of the last true everyman independents the sport will ever see. JD died in 653th start at Watkins Glen in 1991 after a severe crash ironically the prior day to the race he was invited to a local short track race, which he won.
Randy Bass: This is a man who I could write for many hours about.
A baseball player from Oklahoma. He was a pretty good power hitter but never stuck in the Majors and mostly bounced around the Minors and Majors. In 1982 he was sent off to the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league. In his 1982 season he batted a .288/.360/.612 slash line and 27 home runs. In 1985 he batted a .389/.481/.718 and 54 home runs. The .389 BA is still the best in league history, he came very close to breaking the legendary record of 55 HR's by Sadaharu Oh (basically imagine Japanese Babe Ruth) set in 1964 but was intentionally walked 4 straight times in 5 PA in the final game of the season (He would've been intentionally walked 5 times but he lunged out at a ball for a single.) against the Yoimuri Giants who just so happened to be managed by Sadaharu Oh at the time.
His insane season helped the Tigers win their Japan Series championship in their 35 year history as one of the founding NPB teams. Their fans of course went into a mass celebration with thousands and thousands of people on the streets of Osaka. Their fan base at the time had a tradition after major wins where people would gather near the Donotonbori Canal, find people who looked like the team members, have them put on their respective jersey and then have them jump into the canal. After the championship win with 1000's of people they did this for basically every team member but came into trouble finding a lookalike for Bass, a burly, blonde white man with a beard. Some crafty fans found a nearby KFC with a statue of Colonel Sanders outside. Seeing him as the closest thing to Randy Bass's likeness the fans managed to lift the statue and throw it into the canal. In the same way the Cubs were cursed by a goat, Hanshin was cursed by Colonel Sanders. They have not won a Japan Series title since and for a while after this were the worst team in the league.
This is not even close to all the shit that happened to Bass in Japan, I recommend this article if you want more.