Will Ferrell plays for 10 baseball teams in HBO project

PHOENIX, March 12 (UPI) -- Comedian Will Farrell played a little Major League Baseball on Thursday.

OK, it was a lot. He played a total of nine positions on 10 different teams taking part in spring training in the Phoenix area.

It was for a project with his Funny or Die website in conjunction with the MLB for a film that will be aired on HBO. The project is meant to recreate a day in 1965 when Bert Campaneris played all nine baseball positions in one game for the Kansas City Athletics against the California Angels.

Proceeds from the project will be donated to multiple charities, including Cancer for College and Stand Up to Cancer.

First up Ferrell played for the Oakland Athletics and was traded mid-game to the Seattle Mariners for a dozen pens, Mariners Manager Lloyd McClendon said.

"It is for a good cause," McClendon told the Seattle Times. "We'll get through it. It's just a little bump in the road, but what he's doing is for a good charity and a lot of folks have been touched by this. We're all for it."

Moving on to Game 2, Ferrell started out playing centerfield for the Los Angeles Angels before being traded to the Chicago Cubs where he was third base coach, then struck out at bat.

Next up Ferrell played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, which announced they gave up a churro dog and a D-bat dog to the Cubs in the exchange. Midway through the Diamondbacks' game against the Cincinnati Reds, he switched teams and apparently donned a magnificent beard.

The Reds then traded Ferrell to the Chicago White Sox, who were scheduled to play the San Francisco Giants.

He has one last game Thursday night between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres.

Ferrell may be getting a lot of laughs with this stunt, but he told TV personality Mike "Mad Dog" Russo he's entirely serious about his baseball career.

"I'm actually hoping that the acting career is over after today. I think it's pretty much the feeling out here that I'm gonna land with one of these clubs," he said. "These teams need a clubhouse presence, and by presence I mean a 47-year-old flabby guy who doesn't know how to play."