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Posted By: brian parker

Being that spelling seems to be a fairly unpopular topic, thought I would throw in a few more and call it a night. Certain players have had their name misspelled for most of their careers--Rogers Hornsby's first name comes to mind. Another, even more prevalent mispelling is that of Ross Youngs. It appears that he labored his whole career as Ross Young. I don't remember seeing a single card of his with his last name correct. I assume contempary newspapers had it spelled wrong too.

Zeenuts are also rife with misspellings--over the 28 year run there were probably somewhere around 100 players with their last name spelled incorrectly at least once (a big name example would be the DiMaggio brothers all spelled 'DeMaggio'). More than a dozen players had their name mispelled wrong in two different ways, and one poor sap by the name of George Wisterzil had his last name spelled wrong in three different ways (Wisterzill, Westerzil, and Westersil), and never once correct in his four card Zeenut career.

Class dismissed.

Brian