Surely you have heard the legend over time that each of us has its own double in the world. A real twin both in physical appearance and in character. And the confirmation would seem to have arrived, with a few more similarities. To give it to the baseball player, Brady Feigl, who has found a person similar in all respects to him. A “double” not only for his physical appearance but who even has the same name and, just like him, plays baseball.
Let’s go with order: the two discover each other’s existence in 2015 when “Brady 1” receives a “bizarre” phone call from the secretary of the doctor who had operated on him six months earlier, the world-renowned orthopedist John Andrews. “Excuse me, Mr. Brady Feigl, when does he show up for surgery?” the woman asks him. Twist of fate, in fact, also the other Brady, the second to be clear, had to undergo the same operation: reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow.
The “coincidences” between the two are multipleboth are minor league baseball players, both with hair e barba rossisame name and surname, height and eyeglasses and vista. For this the Brady’s decide to rely on the DNA test to verify some biological connection. In fact, the only differences between the two seem to be only the date of birth and the second first name: Brady Matthew Feigl was born on December 27, 1990 in Severn (Maryland) while Brady Gregory Feigl was born on November 27, 1995 in St.Louis ( Missouri), with a distance of about 1400 kilometers.
The similarity is so important that even the respective teams in 2017 made a mistake with the tags on Twitter. The Ole Miss Rebels decided to wish a happy birthday on Twitter to a Brady Feigl (the one born in ’90) who was obviously the other (at the time busy with the Frisco Roughriders, in Texas). “Wrong Brady Feigl, maybe you were looking for him”, he replied at the time amused, then tagging the right namesake.
So, are the two related? According to theDNA test result nois only a sensational case of homonymy and similarity not to be attributed to a blood relationship.
From a recent study taken up by the Sun, the Brady case would not seem to be the only one isolated. An August 2022 study of 32 couples by Cell Reports found that unattached similar people actually share genetic similarities. The scientists who carried out the work also decided to subject the images of the doppelgängers to three different facial recognition programs. However, the two Bradys feel united: “Despite everything, in a certain sense, we feel like brothers”. And having known this beforehand, they would probably have replaced each other in questions or in class assignments. Anyway, the name on the register, always that was.
The article Brady Feigl, the curious case of the two identical and homonymous baseball players: “We are not related but we feel like brothers” comes from Il Fatto Quotidiano.
