Jim Harbaugh once peed his pants so he could take a photo with a MLB player

Before he was head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Jim Harbaugh was just a young boy who really, really wanted to meet a professional baseball player.

Harbaugh took part in a Q&A with Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News recently about his love of baseball and his new friendship with Oakland Athletics manager Bob Melvin. One of the more interesting anecdotes shared by Harbaugh was about how, as a five-year-old, he was so desperate to meet a Cleveland Indians player that he peed his pants.

We went to a Cleveland Indians game. It was one of those games where there was maybe a thousand, 700 people left when it was over. I think the lights had gone out during the game, the old Municipal Stadium.

But you could meet a player after the game. And there was - I think it was a first baseman named McGraw (note from Kawakami: can't find a player named McGraw on the late-1960s Indians, but the blurriness is understandable; he was 5!). Might've been a third baseman.

Anyway, I know we entered the field from the first-base side, just to get a picture with him. Just to get a Polaroid picture.

And I had to go to the bathroom really bad. So I had to make a decision: Me and my brother were like 20 people from actually being able to go on to the field and take a picture with [the player] right by the first-base bag.

And it was either go to the bathroom and not get a picture, or do it right there in my pants. So I chose to go in my pants and my parents have this picture of a big ring right here (points to an obvious place on the front of his pants).

I just want that picture for some reason. I really want that picture.

So do we, Harbaugh.

Kawakami and Harbaugh then go back-and-forth discussing the picture:

Q: Seven-year-old you. Yeah, I can see that.

HARBAUGH: I was five. My brother was seven. Might've been six.

Q: You're posing in the picture with your brother, the player and your pants like that?

HARBAUGH: Yeah, he's in the middle. He's got his arms around me and my brother, [laughs as he puts his arms out like a little kid happily grabbing a baseball player]. 

I've got to get my parents to see if they can get that picture. I've seen it through the years. I'm the only one that really notices [the visible dampness] - there it is.

[H/T FOXSports.com]