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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Friday four.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
You had an idea for me, and I really like
this one.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
I thought we should do a Friday for Mount Rushmore
of favorite nicknames. Now, there's been some good ones throughout
time and history.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We know this. You don't have to go far.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You got you got Abe Lincoln, honest, Abe, You've got
How about one of the greatest baseballers of all time,
Babe Ruth? What a great nickname?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Babe? Is that a nickname? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That wasn't his real first time, I know, but man,
it's just like it's synonymous with him.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, but that's that's what makes it so good.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right, you can just call him that forever now.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Or even the guy whose voice Grace is the show
a lot. It's a character in a movie, Rocky Balboa.
That's a pretty cool nickname.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah. You know what Rocky's real name is, huh? Robert? Okay,
that makes sense. Robert Balboa.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, the only reason we know that he's not
ever actually called Robert in the movies, but he names
his son Robert Junior.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Okay, that makes sense, gotcha. So my Friday four in
honor of your favorite nicknames, all roll out mine here.
So number one is a This is a cartoon character
but also a movie character. And also this character has
been in the news recently because the person who played
this character way back in the day passed away at
seventy three. I'm going Dennis the Menace Mitchell. His last
(01:17):
name's Mitchell. Yeah, a lot of people probably don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That Dennis the Menace. Dennis the Menace. The rhyming helps.
The rhyming helps.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I also think the Menace like, it's just he's a
five and a half year old kid, and he's always
screwing things up. For what's the name of his neighbor,
is it George or something like that, Walter, I don't know,
but he's always messing things up.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Not about him, right, the comic strip is about Dennis.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Exactly, and Dennis is causing havoc for everybody. I just
think the Menace it's a funny nickname. I think it's
funny and it's suiting, and it's maybe a little over
the top for a five and a half year old boy.
But also I can kind of relate to that, you know,
kid back there just causing a ruckus and living your
best life, not letting anybody get you, get you in
the way of it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I love it. Okay, Dennis the Menace. All right, that's
a that's an interesting poll. You could have gone in
so many different places. That was not where I was
expecting to start. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Next one is my favorite nickname throughout history. There's so
many to choose from. I chose this one just because,
again I think this is I think it's hilarious that
this is the nickname.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It is a person I don't know a ton about,
but just the name. Every time I hear it, I
always kind of chuckle. He was a he was a
ruler of Russia back in the fifteen hundreds, the sixteenth century.
But you're gonna know the nickname. You're gonna know the nickname.
Let me get the Wikipedia going e. So Ivan Vasilovich
is his full name, Ivan the Fourth, but he was
(02:43):
known cooquially as Ivan the Terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh that gag Ivan the Terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And you might think, oh, it's because he was doing
horrible atrocities. And you know, you got Vlad the Impaler.
He didn't quite make the list, but that's another good one.
But I just think it's hilarious that this guy's nickname,
Ivan the Terrible is his nickname because he was so
terrible at his job.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, like that's why they called him that.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It wasn't because he was just like this really hard.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We probably did horrible stuff. This was the fifteen hundreds,
you know what I mean. Like back then it was
normal to do horrible things. People act like these days
and times are so terrible. Like just open up a
history book see what they were doing back then you
might be surprised. So, but yeah, is nickname terrible? And
it kind of became popularized because in the Renaissance era,
when people would travel to and fro it was, it
(03:31):
kind of became a running joke for the rest of
Europe to hear about how terrible this guy was for
Russia and how he botched things so royally there that
they kind of grabbed that nickname that the Russian people
had for him and would use it themselves. Ivan the Terrible. Ok,
so yeah, he was just so terrible. I think that's hilarious.
So bad at your job, your nickname is the Terrible.
(03:53):
I I am picking up what you're putting down. What
you got next? What's next for me? Next is I'm
gonna round out the list with my favorite sport and
my two favorite nicknames from my favorite sport.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
He played for the New York Knicks, my beloved New
York Knicks, so he makes the list, can I guess?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, sure, it's guy. Uh No, I can't think of it. Oh,
is it Walt Fraser? No, that's a good one. No, right,
but that's a good one. But this a lot of
people don't know this guy because he played for the
Hornets too. I'm going Larry Grandmama Johnson, the Grandmama. Yeah,
how do you get a nickname like that? Well, it's
(04:31):
because he actually played a grandma in a commercial. Is
a really funny commercial. You can find it on YouTube.
He was a great kind of stretch for a big
man for the New York Knicks and had a bunch
of good years but never really could get them over
the hump. And Larry Grandmama Johnson, so he would be
out there just like yaming on folks, and then the
announcer was.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Like, Larry Grandmama concent.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Like that's just so awesome, that's all right, and then
your last one and the last one is now more
known as a commentator of the sport. But I loved
him when played the game, Charles Barkley, You got it.
He had a bunch of good ones, chuck, sir Charles,
but the one to me that was always the best.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The round mound of rebound.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, so good. That's again, what a round mound
of rebound?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
All objectively true because he was a little bit pudgy
and he was great at grabbing those rebounds. I don't
know whoever came up with that. I hope that they
hope good things happen to them. It's hilarious. The round
mound to rebound. Charles Barkley rounds out the list.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, So Charles Barkley, Larry Johnson, Grandmama you had.
Then it's the Menace and Ivan the Terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'll give you my four coming up. I had had
to make some weird rules for myself to be able
to do this because my list would have been way
too long.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I had to get it to four.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I'll explain what I had to do coming up
next on news radio eleven ten KFA.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
B Emery's songer Shack with someone You on news Radio
eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The Friday four is supposed to be four, and it's
supposed to be four things. It's Mount Rushmore. So you
were doing nicknames, and you could do nicknames for anything anybody.
So many people have great nicknames. You could do nicknames
of cartoon characters. You can do nicknames of sports teams
if you really wanted to. That's not what we're doing here,
but I mean, you could go in a lot of
different directions. There's too many good ones. And I love
(06:17):
stuff like this, love it my favorite era. However, I
had to just like I had to pin this down,
so I'm gonna stick to a very specific era and
a very specific sport. First of all, I want to
tell you I do have the best nickname ever, and
that is the Galloping Ghost Red Grange. There's never been
a better nickname of anybody in the history of mankind
(06:40):
besides the Galloping Ghost and the mystique of Red Grange.
We only have very grainy footage of what he looked
like when he was running with the football. We just
have the pros of the Grantlin rices of the world
to understand what he achieved and what he accomplished. Right,
But he's not on my Friday for today. Because I
had to trim this down. I went with pre nineteen
(07:02):
twenty dead ball era in before baseball names. Can you
forgive me? Because they're just too many awesome nicknames? And
I had I have four good ones from the era,
and you may not agree with them all. Babe, Ruth
didn't land on there. I couldn't fit shoeless Joe Jackson
on because you know, you have to like it's a
great name, but you know, is it really that great?
(07:22):
So here you go. And I'm a baseball historian. By
the way, I love baseball, especially from this era. There's
just too many awesome names. So I'm gonna drop some
knowledge on you here for my Friday four, My Friday
fourth best nicknames ever, and my own personal rule I
created pre nineteen twenty baseball names. Are you ready sure?
Number one? And this is in no particular order. Ice
(07:43):
Box Chamberlain. Yeah, Elton Chamberlain was a pitcher back in
the eighteen eighties and his nickname was ice Box ice
Box Chamberlain.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So that's pretty cool. He uh.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Some sources say it was his ability to remain cool
when facing tough opposition, but also somebody said it was
because of his chronic laziness. You have to decide which
one Ice Box Chamberlain. How about Bob Ferguson. What a good,
good eighteen seventies name. Bob Ferguson. His was death to
Flying Things. What Bob Ferguson, Death to Flying Things. This
(08:20):
is back when you could have elaborate nicknames like that
and people would actually use them. Death to flying things
because he was a great defensive infielder in the pioneer
age of baseball. So there you go. How about that
death to flying Things? Pretty cool? Bob Ferguson his middle name,
By the way, Robert Vava Seer Ferguson. Names were just
(08:40):
better one hundred and fifty years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
They just were.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Number three Brice Lord, who played in the early nineteen hundreds.
Brice is for Bristol. His full name is Bristol Robotham Lord,
by itself an incredible name.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Brice Lord.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
His nickname the human eyeball, okay, the human eyeball, because
he had.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Great eye sight.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Apparently, even though he was not a great baseball player,
he didn't have great you know, like, historically speaking, you
have no reason to know who bris Lord is except
the fact that he has an incredible nickname. I know
who he is because I like baseball history, and he
ended up having a decent career, played for over at
almost a decade in the American League. So but bris
(09:25):
Lord the human eyeball, that's a good one. And then lastly,
I'm going to wrap it up with maybe my favorite
of all, Laddell Titcomb. His nickname was cannonball, cannon Ball Titcomb. Nothing,
what made him a cannonball?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Is that really where your questions are? Yeah, where'd you
get the nickname from?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What's what's the Usually it comes from something like Grandma
Ma Larry, Grandmama Johnson. It was because he played a
grandma on a commercial and slammed the dunk.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I just thought you'd have more questions about Titcomb. No,
I get it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You think that's a funny last name because of the
three letters that begins it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But my whole name is funny. I'm asking about the
nickname Laddell Titcomb. Okay, a cannon ball. Cannonball Titcomb.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, was he was he a pitcher? Was he a hitter? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well he was a guy who also was not really
great at anything him existing and his nickname was really
the only reason why anybody one hundred years later would
learn about him.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Interesting, so you wonder how he got it. That's all
I meant.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, he was a more of a pitcher. He was
a pitcher. He was a guy as a pitcher. But
here's the trick with Cannonball Titcomb. Nobody actually called him
Cannonball until after he was dead. Huh So according to
the Society of American Baseball Research, Saber and I pulled
the article up about him, they say nothing about him
(10:42):
being called cannonball was mentioned until he died at age
eighty two, well after his playing days. At no time
during his professional playing career had anyone said anything about
Cannonball Titcomb being called Cannonball. He was just Laddell Titcomb.
Now again, he pitched a no hitter in eighteen ninety,
only played for a handful of years in the eighteen eighties.
(11:03):
But if you go back and you go and look
at his history, he was just kind of as a
whatever guy. You know, he's a pretty forgettable baseball player,
didn't play that long. But when somebody went back and
called him Cannonball Titcomb, even well afterwards, he got to
sign this name in death. Somehow, that's still an incredible name.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Fair enough, fair enough still would like to know where
it came from, who assigned it, and why.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't know who wrote the article, but on seventeen
occasions Ladell Titcomb appeared in newsprint, but at no time whatsoever,
and during his playing career was he ever referred to
as Cannonball Titcomb.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm guessing it's because in his obituary somebody said he
threw so hard they called him a cannonball.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That'd be the only thing I could think of, right,
I mean, usually these things are initiated while these guys
are still alive, and this is kind of a weird
situation where I'm trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I love baseball history. You can't get this stuff anywhere
else
Friday four.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
You had an idea for me, and I really like
this one.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (00:03):
I thought we should do a Friday for Mount Rushmore
of favorite nicknames. Now, there's been some good ones throughout
time and history.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
We know this. You don't have to go far.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You got you got Abe Lincoln, honest, Abe, You've got
How about one of the greatest baseballers of all time,
Babe Ruth? What a great nickname?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Babe? Is that a nickname? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That wasn't his real first time, I know, but man,
it's just like it's synonymous with him.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, but that's that's what makes it so good.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right, you can just call him that forever now.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Or even the guy whose voice Grace is the show
a lot. It's a character in a movie, Rocky Balboa.
That's a pretty cool nickname.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah. You know what Rocky's real name is, huh? Robert? Okay,
that makes sense. Robert Balboa.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, yeah, the only reason we know that he's not
ever actually called Robert in the movies, but he names
his son Robert Junior.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Okay, that makes sense, gotcha. So my Friday four in
honor of your favorite nicknames, all roll out mine here.
So number one is a This is a cartoon character
but also a movie character. And also this character has
been in the news recently because the person who played
this character way back in the day passed away at
seventy three. I'm going Dennis the Menace Mitchell. His last
(01:17):
name's Mitchell. Yeah, a lot of people probably don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
That Dennis the Menace. Dennis the Menace. The rhyming helps.
The rhyming helps.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I also think the Menace like, it's just he's a
five and a half year old kid, and he's always
screwing things up. For what's the name of his neighbor,
is it George or something like that, Walter, I don't know,
but he's always messing things up.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Not about him, right, the comic strip is about Dennis.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Exactly, and Dennis is causing havoc for everybody. I just
think the Menace it's a funny nickname. I think it's
funny and it's suiting, and it's maybe a little over
the top for a five and a half year old boy.
But also I can kind of relate to that, you know,
kid back there just causing a ruckus and living your
best life, not letting anybody get you, get you in
the way of it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I love it. Okay, Dennis the Menace. All right, that's
a that's an interesting poll. You could have gone in
so many different places. That was not where I was
expecting to start. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Next one is my favorite nickname throughout history. There's so
many to choose from. I chose this one just because,
again I think this is I think it's hilarious that
this is the nickname.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
It is a person I don't know a ton about,
but just the name. Every time I hear it, I
always kind of chuckle. He was a he was a
ruler of Russia back in the fifteen hundreds, the sixteenth century.
But you're gonna know the nickname. You're gonna know the nickname.
Let me get the Wikipedia going e. So Ivan Vasilovich
is his full name, Ivan the Fourth, but he was
(02:43):
known cooquially as Ivan the Terrible.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh that gag Ivan the Terrible.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
And you might think, oh, it's because he was doing
horrible atrocities. And you know, you got Vlad the Impaler.
He didn't quite make the list, but that's another good one.
But I just think it's hilarious that this guy's nickname,
Ivan the Terrible is his nickname because he was so
terrible at his job.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Oh, like that's why they called him that.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It wasn't because he was just like this really hard.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We probably did horrible stuff. This was the fifteen hundreds,
you know what I mean. Like back then it was
normal to do horrible things. People act like these days
and times are so terrible. Like just open up a
history book see what they were doing back then you
might be surprised. So, but yeah, is nickname terrible? And
it kind of became popularized because in the Renaissance era,
when people would travel to and fro it was, it
(03:31):
kind of became a running joke for the rest of
Europe to hear about how terrible this guy was for
Russia and how he botched things so royally there that
they kind of grabbed that nickname that the Russian people
had for him and would use it themselves. Ivan the Terrible. Ok,
so yeah, he was just so terrible. I think that's hilarious.
So bad at your job, your nickname is the Terrible.
(03:53):
I I am picking up what you're putting down. What
you got next? What's next for me? Next is I'm
gonna round out the list with my favorite sport and
my two favorite nicknames from my favorite sport.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
He played for the New York Knicks, my beloved New
York Knicks, so he makes the list, can I guess?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, sure, it's guy. Uh No, I can't think of it. Oh,
is it Walt Fraser? No, that's a good one. No, right,
but that's a good one. But this a lot of
people don't know this guy because he played for the
Hornets too. I'm going Larry Grandmama Johnson, the Grandmama. Yeah,
how do you get a nickname like that? Well, it's
(04:31):
because he actually played a grandma in a commercial. Is
a really funny commercial. You can find it on YouTube.
He was a great kind of stretch for a big
man for the New York Knicks and had a bunch
of good years but never really could get them over
the hump. And Larry Grandmama Johnson, so he would be
out there just like yaming on folks, and then the
announcer was.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Like, Larry Grandmama concent.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Like that's just so awesome, that's all right, and then
your last one and the last one is now more
known as a commentator of the sport. But I loved
him when played the game, Charles Barkley, You got it.
He had a bunch of good ones, chuck, sir Charles,
but the one to me that was always the best.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
The round mound of rebound.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, so good. That's again, what a round mound
of rebound?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
All objectively true because he was a little bit pudgy
and he was great at grabbing those rebounds. I don't
know whoever came up with that. I hope that they
hope good things happen to them. It's hilarious. The round
mound to rebound. Charles Barkley rounds out the list.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
All right, So Charles Barkley, Larry Johnson, Grandmama you had.
Then it's the Menace and Ivan the Terrible.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'll give you my four coming up. I had had
to make some weird rules for myself to be able
to do this because my list would have been way
too long.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I had to get it to four.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
And I'll explain what I had to do coming up
next on news radio eleven ten KFA.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
B Emery's songer Shack with someone You on news Radio
eleven ten KFAB.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
The Friday four is supposed to be four, and it's
supposed to be four things. It's Mount Rushmore. So you
were doing nicknames, and you could do nicknames for anything anybody.
So many people have great nicknames. You could do nicknames
of cartoon characters. You can do nicknames of sports teams
if you really wanted to. That's not what we're doing here,
but I mean, you could go in a lot of
different directions. There's too many good ones. And I love
(06:17):
stuff like this, love it my favorite era. However, I
had to just like I had to pin this down,
so I'm gonna stick to a very specific era and
a very specific sport. First of all, I want to
tell you I do have the best nickname ever, and
that is the Galloping Ghost Red Grange. There's never been
a better nickname of anybody in the history of mankind
(06:40):
besides the Galloping Ghost and the mystique of Red Grange.
We only have very grainy footage of what he looked
like when he was running with the football. We just
have the pros of the Grantlin rices of the world
to understand what he achieved and what he accomplished. Right,
But he's not on my Friday for today. Because I
had to trim this down. I went with pre nineteen
(07:02):
twenty dead ball era in before baseball names. Can you
forgive me? Because they're just too many awesome nicknames? And
I had I have four good ones from the era,
and you may not agree with them all. Babe, Ruth
didn't land on there. I couldn't fit shoeless Joe Jackson
on because you know, you have to like it's a
great name, but you know, is it really that great?
(07:22):
So here you go. And I'm a baseball historian. By
the way, I love baseball, especially from this era. There's
just too many awesome names. So I'm gonna drop some
knowledge on you here for my Friday four, My Friday
fourth best nicknames ever, and my own personal rule I
created pre nineteen twenty baseball names. Are you ready sure?
Number one? And this is in no particular order. Ice
(07:43):
Box Chamberlain. Yeah, Elton Chamberlain was a pitcher back in
the eighteen eighties and his nickname was ice Box ice
Box Chamberlain.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
So that's pretty cool. He uh.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Some sources say it was his ability to remain cool
when facing tough opposition, but also somebody said it was
because of his chronic laziness. You have to decide which
one Ice Box Chamberlain. How about Bob Ferguson. What a good,
good eighteen seventies name. Bob Ferguson. His was death to
Flying Things. What Bob Ferguson, Death to Flying Things. This
(08:20):
is back when you could have elaborate nicknames like that
and people would actually use them. Death to flying things
because he was a great defensive infielder in the pioneer
age of baseball. So there you go. How about that
death to flying Things? Pretty cool? Bob Ferguson his middle name,
By the way, Robert Vava Seer Ferguson. Names were just
(08:40):
better one hundred and fifty years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
They just were.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Number three Brice Lord, who played in the early nineteen hundreds.
Brice is for Bristol. His full name is Bristol Robotham Lord,
by itself an incredible name.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Brice Lord.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
His nickname the human eyeball, okay, the human eyeball, because
he had.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Great eye sight.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Apparently, even though he was not a great baseball player,
he didn't have great you know, like, historically speaking, you
have no reason to know who bris Lord is except
the fact that he has an incredible nickname. I know
who he is because I like baseball history, and he
ended up having a decent career, played for over at
almost a decade in the American League. So but bris
(09:25):
Lord the human eyeball, that's a good one. And then lastly,
I'm going to wrap it up with maybe my favorite
of all, Laddell Titcomb. His nickname was cannonball, cannon Ball Titcomb. Nothing,
what made him a cannonball?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Well?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Is that really where your questions are? Yeah, where'd you
get the nickname from?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
What's what's the Usually it comes from something like Grandma
Ma Larry, Grandmama Johnson. It was because he played a
grandma on a commercial and slammed the dunk.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I just thought you'd have more questions about Titcomb. No,
I get it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You think that's a funny last name because of the
three letters that begins it.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
But my whole name is funny. I'm asking about the
nickname Laddell Titcomb. Okay, a cannon ball. Cannonball Titcomb.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, was he was he a pitcher? Was he a hitter? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well he was a guy who also was not really
great at anything him existing and his nickname was really
the only reason why anybody one hundred years later would
learn about him.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Interesting, so you wonder how he got it. That's all
I meant.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well, he was a more of a pitcher. He was
a pitcher. He was a guy as a pitcher. But
here's the trick with Cannonball Titcomb. Nobody actually called him
Cannonball until after he was dead. Huh So according to
the Society of American Baseball Research, Saber and I pulled
the article up about him, they say nothing about him
(10:42):
being called cannonball was mentioned until he died at age
eighty two, well after his playing days. At no time
during his professional playing career had anyone said anything about
Cannonball Titcomb being called Cannonball. He was just Laddell Titcomb.
Now again, he pitched a no hitter in eighteen ninety,
only played for a handful of years in the eighteen eighties.
(11:03):
But if you go back and you go and look
at his history, he was just kind of as a
whatever guy. You know, he's a pretty forgettable baseball player,
didn't play that long. But when somebody went back and
called him Cannonball Titcomb, even well afterwards, he got to
sign this name in death. Somehow, that's still an incredible name.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Fair enough, fair enough still would like to know where
it came from, who assigned it, and why.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I don't know who wrote the article, but on seventeen
occasions Ladell Titcomb appeared in newsprint, but at no time whatsoever,
and during his playing career was he ever referred to
as Cannonball Titcomb.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I'm guessing it's because in his obituary somebody said he
threw so hard they called him a cannonball.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That'd be the only thing I could think of, right,
I mean, usually these things are initiated while these guys
are still alive, and this is kind of a weird
situation where I'm trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
I love baseball history. You can't get this stuff anywhere
else
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