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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 8, 2023 6:37:40 GMT -5
Once again, question about ballplayers and horses.
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned horse Roberto being named after Roberto Clemente. This time it went in an opposite way i. e. ML player was nicknamed after a horse.
Name a horse and a player.
BAMN
P. S. I know about only one event like this. In case something like this has happened more than once, I reserve myself the right to accept as correct only one answer - the one I have in mind.
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Post by my2cents on Oct 8, 2023 9:25:58 GMT -5
Moses J. Yellow Horse?
The tribe’s yellow horse??
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 8, 2023 10:55:17 GMT -5
Moses J. Yellow Horse? The tribe’s yellow horse?? Not the correct answer.
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 9, 2023 6:15:26 GMT -5
Clue:
Horse was well known in his times.
The same can't be said about player. His ML career was short and unspectacular.
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Post by my2cents on Oct 9, 2023 9:17:16 GMT -5
I don’t think I can answer your question, but here’s the best horse/baseball joke
A horse visited a baseball stadium, trotted over to the manager and asked for a tryout. The manager, stunned by the talking horse, figured he'd give the tryout a go. The horse took batting practice and slammed several pitches out of the park. Next came fielding practice, and he stopped everything at shortstop, and fired the ball to first base each time with amazing accuracy. The dazed manager said, "Great! Now let's see you run." The horse said, "Are you kidding? If I could run, I'd be at Churchill Downs."
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Post by my2cents on Oct 9, 2023 9:26:27 GMT -5
Lloyd Merriman
Citation
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Post by ZbiSal on Oct 10, 2023 6:40:18 GMT -5
Correct answer. Citation was the horse who won the Triple Crown in 1948. Lloyd Merriman was nicknamed "Citation", in honor of this horse, because he allegedly was one of the fastest players of his days. I wrote "allegedly" because he stole only 20 bases in 5 seasons in his ML career. So it doesn't look he was specially fast.
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Post by my2cents on Oct 10, 2023 16:14:35 GMT -5
This one took some work. I pasted the names of famous race horses that sounded like good baseball nicknames into baseball-ref.
Citation was not an early guess.
I thought the joke was a better find!
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Post by Lefteroo on Oct 11, 2023 11:28:35 GMT -5
1) I really liked the joke.
2) Zbi's questions are always excellent.
3) My two cents is an incredible researcher.
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Post by my2cents on Oct 11, 2023 12:24:04 GMT -5
1) I really liked the joke. 2) Zbi's questions are always excellent. 3) My two cents is an incredible researcher. Appreciate the “excellent researcher”, but in all fairness no one compares to Zbi!
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