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FearlessF

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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #42 on: February 27, 2020, 02:35:30 PM »
Charlie Hustle is a good name, but not sure he was called this by fellow players
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« Reply #43 on: February 27, 2020, 04:26:19 PM »
I thought it was Mickey Mantle that coined that (and not in a friendly manner).  Pete Rose took it and ran with it.
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« Reply #44 on: February 27, 2020, 04:54:36 PM »
I was "Charlie Hustle" in Little League.  I would play catch endlessly and I knew I wasn't fast, so I ran all-out every time, etc.  My coach loved it.
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #45 on: February 27, 2020, 05:46:18 PM »
I received the "Hustle Award" at fantasy camp this year.  I chuckled a bit, but I think because I was the second oldest guy and was still able to run on the last day got it for me.  I don't think I particularly hustled at anything, I went first to third a couple of times and had two doubles.  It's surprising how hard it is to run 180 feet, I find.

I also slid once in an effort to break up a double play, but my slide stopped about a foot from second base because I am so slow ....  I laughed.

I'm pretty sure I am a 7-8 second 40 time now.  I tried to time myself in the hundred down at the track and my watch ran out of power.
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #46 on: February 27, 2020, 08:34:14 PM »
the sun dial ran out of light?
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #47 on: February 27, 2020, 08:59:33 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 27, 2020, 08:34:14 PM
the sun dial ran out of light?
Well, morning put it back on track.  Man, I am slow now.  Really really slow.
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« Reply #48 on: February 28, 2020, 08:34:00 AM »
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« Reply #49 on: February 28, 2020, 08:38:03 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 27, 2020, 08:34:14 PM
the sun dial ran out of light?
Didn't they throw salt on the slugs to keep from lapping you?Until they put the clubs and a case of Bud Fat at home plate
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #50 on: February 28, 2020, 08:58:38 AM »
Quote from: fezzador on February 27, 2020, 01:31:56 PM
And if Cy, Cap, and Galloping Ghost sound dated, "Old Hoss" Radbourn and "Orator Jim" O'Rourke say, hold my beer.  Those are some 19th century type nicknames for sure.
He was a trivia question before the interwebz.Remember looking him up in the Almanac/Encyclopedia he had 60 some wins one season.OK looked it up and in 1884 with the Providence Grays he had  59 or 60 wins depending on who you wanted to believe

  Also noted was - Radbourn is also known for being the first person photographed gesturing the middle finger. In 1886, an image was captured of him "flipping off" a member of the New York Giants in a team photo.

Hell that right there gets him into the HOF,IMO
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #51 on: February 28, 2020, 09:07:14 AM »
Those old names are pretty fun indeed.
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« Reply #52 on: February 28, 2020, 12:18:32 PM »
I've always been very slow

born 8 weeks premature in 1962 - very flat feet and a short Achilles tendon in my left foot

I'm walking proof that white men can't jump

more well suited to golf or horseshoes
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #53 on: February 28, 2020, 12:48:46 PM »
I could run decently "OK" in my 20s and 30s for a big guy.  When I played baseball I had a green light all the time, and rarely was thrown out.  This was in part because the catchers didn't have great arms of course.  Maybe in large part.

I worked on my quads and got more stride and then noticed my hammies were sore, and then groin.  I do a lot of stretching along with resistance stuff.

I got a bit of jump back, not much.  I could jump OK, enough to dunk, but not easily, just barely, I couldn't touch rim now.

Nothing but net.
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #54 on: February 28, 2020, 01:32:35 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on February 28, 2020, 12:18:32 PM
I've always been very slow

born 8 weeks premature in 1962 - very flat feet and a short Achilles tendon in my left foot

I'm walking proof that white men can't jump

more well suited to golf or horseshoes
They would've called you Ice Wagon back then.  I read a fair amount of baseball books during dead ball era and 19th century.  That insult comes up a fair amount. 
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Re: Great CFB Player Nicknames
« Reply #55 on: February 28, 2020, 01:49:16 PM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on February 28, 2020, 01:32:35 PM
They would've called you Ice Wagon back then .That insult comes up a fair amount.
What about ambulance chaser? I'll show myself out
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