Surprising Stories from the Set of I Love Lucy

William Frawley was a diehard New York Yankees fan, and his love for the team was serious enough to make it into his I Love Lucy contract. He negotiated a clause that excused him from filming whenever the Yankees were in the World Series—no questions asked.

As luck (or baseball dominance) would have it, the Yankees reached the World Series almost every year the show was on the air, missing only 1954. The production worked around his absence, proving that even television legends sometimes had to bow to baseball.