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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sounds like a character in one of the Austin Powers movies.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br>Baseball is unfortunately running short of great names and nicknames. I like Blade Tidwell, who unfortunately is an NL prospect. On the AL side, there's Matt "Tugboat" Wilkinson, who rocks the Terry Forster body type with a body-appropriate nickname. (Remember Pork Chop Pough or Motorboat Jones? Ah, the good old days!)</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br>Mark</div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 05:07:54 PM CDT, Mark Blocker <blockermark@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_default">Oh, then she shouldn't have changed it !</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><div id="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437yqtfd41036" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437yqt5147076614"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_attr">On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 5:06 PM Richard Robbins <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:RERobbins@itinker.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RERobbins@itinker.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><div>Smashnova was her maiden name. </div><div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_attr">On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 5:03 PM Mark Blocker <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:blockermark@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blockermark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_default">Nice memory lane trip. But for one of the shortest players on tour (5-2), she probably should have stuck with the maiden name, which would have made more sense (Pistolesi).</div><div style="font-size:large;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_default"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-size:large;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_default">Mark</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"></div><div class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_attr">On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 3:23 PM Richard Robbins <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:RERobbins@itinker.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RERobbins@itinker.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div></div><div class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"></blockquote></div><div class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><div>Mark B. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Read this lengthy summary of Smashnova’s career and see if you see anything that suggests she was capable of hitting a ball with authority. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Sorry. Not sorry. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anna-smashnova" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/anna-smashnova</a><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div><div class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpf2b7680ayiv4605446437gmail_quote">
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