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What's in a name?

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What's in a name?

Apr 2, 2019
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"What's in a name? ... A rose by any other name would wither and die."
-- My Favorite Year

In the dog days of 1969, a ballplayer named Dick Allen (but who was still being called Richie Allen) rather suddenly scratched out a word in the infield dirt. This was a few days after he had been suspended by the Philadelphia Phillies for failing to show up for a d…

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