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Tire Iron was also nicknamed "Bad News" Barnes. Trivia question.................whom did he attack with the tire iron?
Was it one of his PC teammates? I can't remember to be honest.
Tire Iron was also nicknamed "Bad News" Barnes. Trivia question.................whom did he attack with the tire iron?
Was it one of his PC teammates? I can't remember to be honest.
It was, a big guy named Larry Ketvirtis. It's why his nickname was Bad News.I doubt it was Ernie D, but I do think it was a teammate.
Isn't Big Red the guy who does the U - C - O - N - N cheer at men's games?Ah, Big Red, what a horse!
All right guys, chew on these..........
The horse __________________
Was is "Bad moon" ?
Who was "The BIG Dipper?
Ah, Wilt, the Big Dipper! I saw him at Randall's Island in NYC in 1964, where the Olympic track and field trials were going on. He got up out of his seat, it seemed like he just kept getting up and up! He was so big. He is considered by some to be one of the great all - around athletes, so fast,so strong.He was a track& field standout at Overbrook HS and at Kansas. And is in the Volleyball Hall of Fame.And,of course, also known as Wilt the Stilt.
"Happy" Felton, in Brooklyn and not a player. Did a pre-game show with kids, fielding and throwing with Dodger players.The only LA Happy I heard of was Happy Hairston of the Lakers.
Agreed, Mdoggie, but well deserved... it was Dick Stuart, a slugging first baseman during the '60s. He was given that moniker during the years after Kubrick's legendary movie, Dr. Strangelove, came out. He played pretty awful defense with the Pirates and Red Sox, all the while hitting lots of homers. His season best in homers was 42 in '63 for the Red Sox, the same season he had 29 errors!Doctor Strangeglove has got to be an all time classic nickname!!
I used to think that Wilt was a tall guy, but then I happened by Manute Bol at Springfield College years ago. He was playing for Bridgeport, and all he did was hoist up threes, and curse rather loudly. He walked right by me after halftime. Whole new take on tall..The "BIG Dipper" was in fact one of Wilt Chamberlain's monikers. Laker radio announcer Chick Hern use to refer to him as "The Dipper" all the time during his calls of Wilt's Laker games. I was standing at the entrance to the Laker locker room during a game at the Forum in 1972. As the Lakers went back to the locker room, Wilt passed by me at a distance of no more than 5-6 feet. The man was H-U-G-E!!! He was tall and wide. Looking at him on TV or from the stands, you couldn't really get a true perspective of how BIG he was.
I ran into the Lakers Michael Cooper as he was coming out of a McDonalds one morning in Inglewood California. Cooper is 6'6". As I walked by him (he was coming out as I was going in), he looked every bit of 6-6. When you see him on TV next to other taller players on the floor, he didn't look that tall.