Cocky Dizzy Dean

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by paul

Can anyone explain why Dizzy's name is sometimes reported as "Jerome Herman Dean" and sometimes as "Jay Hanna Dean"?

according to his SABR Bio he officially changed his name as a teen to honor a friend who died as a gesture to the mother. His birth name is Jay, he changed it to Jeorme. Had to get his dad's permission to do so.

[z28jd]

My dad collected cards and some memorabilia when he was a kid, but most of it got thrown away shortly after he moved out of the house. That's something he still talks about to this day, mostly because his stuff was on a small shelf in the corner of a finished basement that was never used for anything else before or afterwards.

Anyway, one of the few things that survived was a Mickey Mantle Day program from 1965 that he had signed by Dizzy Dean and a few other announcers. Beautiful signature on it.