If you're not sold yet, you won't believe what I have just uncovered (I'm stuck at home today waiting for a delivery guy). It is a joke card regarding Pretzles Getzien's name.
Getzien is not a real German name. It derives from the word "gesehen" which means "to have been seen."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gesehen
Yet on some of his cards in the OJ book, it reads "Cetzein", and in fact, it caused a confusion in a few newspaper articles succeeding the publishing of the card, where he is called Cetzein.
But it turns out that the name "Cetzein" was also a joke. You can see from this passage, "Cet zein":
"The word he translated ‘investigate’ is cet zein, which can carry the semi-technical sense ‘subject to a Socratic examination.’"
http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=us
The joke is that, as a German foreigner,
Charlie Getzien was an oddball subject to examination. Get it? These guys are using the roots of words of the player names to make jokes!!!
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"Detroit has a pitcher in Cetzein who is second to. I none ia the League, and he ... The record of the pitchers shows that Cetzein has done work that entitles him to ..."
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%...20-%200018.pdf
"Cetzein pitched for us that day. He vowedi eome time previously that if we ever did win again he would drop dead. And ihe almost kept his word. As the last man ..."
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%...20-%200018.pdf
Batteries Cetzein and Bennett; Hutchinson and KittredKC. I. At Philadelphia—. R- H. E.. Philadelphia...0 2 0 1 2 5 0 0 0-1013 0. Cleveland. .0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0— ...
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2...20-%200039.pdf