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Will Ferrell now has his own Baseball Reference page, and it's hilarious

Published Mar. 13, 2015 3:26 p.m. ET

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Zack Pierce

Will Ferrell is officially in the annals of baseball.

Baseball Reference, the online encyclopedia of America's Pastime, has given the "Anchorman" star his own page on the site after Ferrell played in five different spring training games in Arizona on Thursday.

Ferrell didn't exactly light up the stat sheet, but therein lies the fun. Some highlights from his page, which is worth a visit:

• His name is listed as: "John William Ferrell (Manimal)";

• He's quite versatile in the field: "Position: P-C-1B-2B-SS-3B-LF-CF-RF-DH";

• His weight is listed as "220ish";

• He will be eligible for salary arbitration in 2018 and free agency in 2021;

• His list of transactions from his one day in the big leagues:

• And perhaps best of all, here it is, his complete career stat line:

All in all, a great day. If you missed any of the highlights from his trip around baseball, they're worth a look. Especially this classy move he pulled while playing for the Padres.

Before his odyssey began, Ferrell told a radio interviewer that he expected to raise $1 million to be used for college scholarships for cancer survivors. The entire tour was being chronicled by HBO for an upcoming special. Memorabilia from his journey is to be sold at auction on MLB.com with proceeds going to Cancer for College and Stand Up to Cancer. In his farewell speech, Ferrell introduced Craig Pollard, the founder of Cancer for College, saying the organization had given 2,000 scholarships to children with cancer over the past 20 years.

Ferrell decided to coincide the benefit with the 50th anniversary of the time Bert Campaneris became the first player in major-league history to play all nine positions in the field in one game.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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