Monday, November 29, 2010

Nicknames on jackets

Sometimes on a baseball card you will see a player wearing a jacket, and on that jacket is not the player's given name, but his nickname.

Some names are cool - "Joe Table" is "Jose Mesa" in English.

Others are weird and kind of creepy - like Jeff Russell, who was apparently known in the Rangers clubhouse as "Rubbs".
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2 comments:

  1. SpastikMoossNovember 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM

    My college roommate was named Joe Table. Having lived in Cleveland all his life, it was a pretty awesome name to have. Outside of 1997 I guess.

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  2. Orioles MagicNovember 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM

    Good eye spotting the nicknames, I'm always missing things like that.

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