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Originally Posted by jalex
This one has confounded me and sometimes made me re-think my love for pre-war baseball. Heinie and Rube are tame compared to some of the nicknames given to men who played base ball then. How about "Dummy" for a deaf guy, or "Nig" for well, you know... My favorite pre-war player is Ed Summers, they called him "Kickapoo Ed" because of his native ancestry. It was a very non-PC time.
Cheers,
Jim
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