Bronx Banter » putsy caballero http://www.bronxbanterblog.com Development site for Bronx Banter Blog's upcoming look and feel Thu, 23 May 2013 20:38:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Baseball Player Name of the Week http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/10/25/baseball-player-name-of-the-week/ http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/2010/10/25/baseball-player-name-of-the-week/#comments Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:08:13 +0000 Emma Span http://www.bronxbanterblog.com/?p=43215 Back on my blog Eephus Pitch I used to have a Baseball Player Name of the Week feature, which I think it is past time to revive. Previous honorees include Ossee Schreckengost, Slim Love, Bill Wambsganss (and Braggo “The Globetrotter” Roth),  Buttercup Dickerson, Mutz and Jewel Ens, The Wild Elk of the Wasatch, Freuny Parra, Cletus Elwood “Boots” Poffenberger, and of course Bristol “Bris” Robotham Lord, aka “the Human Eyeball,” among many other luminaries.  Today’s pick:

Putsy Caballero.

Putsy, né Ralph, joined the Phillies in 1944  at age 16 – making, him to this day, the youngest Phillie ever. 1948 was his only season as the team’s regular third baseman, and he “retired” at 24, heading home to New Orleans to work as an exterminator and eventually open his own pest-control business. According to BR Bullpen, he stayed there until 2005, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed his house, though not his Phillies uniform. Wikipedia has him living now in Lake View, LA.

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