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We may have to rethink 'Oil Can's' nickname

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, Feb 9, 2012.

  1. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Me!

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  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Bump ... Oil Can's other revelation in the book? Jackie Robinson can suck it.

    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/05/oil-can-boyd-jackie-robinson-cocaine-red-sox/1

    If he had the opportunity meet to Jackie Robinson, former big-league pitcher Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd says he would say: "Why'd you do this?"

    "I don't really think that Negro league baseball shoulda been broken up."

    "I'm not real thankful to Jackie at all because I'm me -- my style of baseball, the way I played it in the major leagues transpired from the Negro leagues. So that's why people found that I was a hot dog or I was flamboyant."
     
  3. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Jim Abbot?
     
  4. apeman33

    apeman33 Well-Known Member

    So his nickname should have been "Uncle Tom" Boyd?
     
  5. Guy_Incognito

    Guy_Incognito Well-Known Member

    Don Larsen?
     
  6. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Or the '50s and the '60s and the '70s?
     
  7. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Since this is my first time reading this thread, I can safely say I have a new nickname for Boyd.

    Coke Can.
     
  8. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    I understand where Oil Can is coming from.
     
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