1948 Leaf Nicknames
I've read up some on Steve Van Buren including a really good Kindle book on the 48 title game in the blizzard called "Give it to Steve" and it seems like he did have the nicknames: "Wham Bam" and "Supersonic Steve", but not "Big Boy". That seems completely made up.
The only nickname I found on George McAfee is "One Play" and since Gorgeous George was a wrestler, this one seems suspect to me as well.
Sammy Baugh, they got correct using "Slingin".
Has anyone else ever noticed this? Could someone working at Leaf who didn't know much about football have just made up some nicknames or were these legitimate nicknames that I never heard of?
Last edited by TanksAndSpartans; 01-03-2014 at 11:01 AM.
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