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Old 06-10-2015, 08:44 PM
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Default Neat Quiz on Maine Baseball

From the Bangor Daily News, with interesting vintage content


"In researching a recent post about Maine-born professional sports players, I came across a number of old-time (and not-so-old-time) baseball players with great nicknames.

Maine guys with nicknames like “Piano Legs” and “Climax” got up to bat or took the mound over the last 150 years or so. Some nicknames were self-explanatory, describing a player’s speed or physical attributes. Others — like “Piano Legs,” there — we can only guess at the origins of."


http://bangordailynews.com/2015/06/1...eir-nicknames/
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