Skeptic1959
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Another fun topic! Let's see what you can come up with in listing nicknames in sports.
I'll get the ball rolling with two!
"Dummy Hoy." Yes, there was a baseball player named William Ellsworth Hoy. He got the nickname "Dummy" because at the age of three he was diagnosed with meningitis which made him deaf. He actually gave himself the nickname Dummy after people kept calling him by his birthname. Hoy would go on to play on several Major League Baseball teams and finish his career with 2,048 hits and a .288 batting average.
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#2. Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown better known as "Three Finger Brown." After a farming accident that took off parts of two fingers on his right hand, Brown did not let this deter his opportunity to use that hand and become an outstanding pitcher for a handful of Major League Baseball teams where he won 239 games and lost just 130 with an E.R.A. fo 2.06 while striking out 1,375.
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I'll get the ball rolling with two!
"Dummy Hoy." Yes, there was a baseball player named William Ellsworth Hoy. He got the nickname "Dummy" because at the age of three he was diagnosed with meningitis which made him deaf. He actually gave himself the nickname Dummy after people kept calling him by his birthname. Hoy would go on to play on several Major League Baseball teams and finish his career with 2,048 hits and a .288 batting average.
Dummy Hoy - Wikipedia
#2. Mordecai Peter Centennial Brown better known as "Three Finger Brown." After a farming accident that took off parts of two fingers on his right hand, Brown did not let this deter his opportunity to use that hand and become an outstanding pitcher for a handful of Major League Baseball teams where he won 239 games and lost just 130 with an E.R.A. fo 2.06 while striking out 1,375.
