New York Yankees third baseman Aaron Boone won a spot on Men's Fitness magazine's "Rich, Gifted, and Stupid" list in 2004. Here's why:
"Boone ignored a clause in his contract with the Yankees and plays in a pickup basketball game. What could happen, really? How about a torn ACL, millions in lost pay, and a flight to Cleveland?"

["After Boone hit one of the most memorable home runs in the storied history of the franchise, the editors of the New York Post made an embarrassing mistake. The Post's printers accidentally received an editorial written for publication in the event of a Yankee loss to the Boston Red Sox in [the 2003] American League Championship Series. When Boone smashed his eleventh-inning homer and doomed the World Series hopes of the reviled Sox for yet another year, he delivered for Yankee fans their most euphoric victory in a generation. But, instead of reading about the tidal wave of emotion overcoming New York, fans who opened the next day's Post to the editorial page were bewildered to read of a nightmarish alternate reality and had to flip to the sports section to reassure themselves that the Yanks' thirty-ninth pennant victory was not in fact a late-night delusion."]