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Originally Posted by G1911
This is a piece of actual evidence.
~Ten seconds before it, Dick Groat calls him Bobby.
For: Osvaldo Gil says in this documentary that he corrected people who called him Bob or Bobby to Roberto.
Against: Similar testimony of several teammates and Pirates, Bartirome's foremost. That he sometimes signed his name as Bob. That he continued to give Topps his rights for almost nothing even as they called him Bob, as many people did.
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It could be he was OK with people with whom he was close calling him Bob or Bobby but not with the world in general. I would get that if it was true. My family always called me Pete but I never went by that otherwise.
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