http://thatballsouttahere.com A Philadelphia Phillies Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Fri, 17 May 2013 20:02:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/03/03/hamels-sharp-as-phils-one-hit-red-sox/ http://thatballsouttahere.com/2011/03/03/hamels-sharp-as-phils-one-hit-red-sox/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:50:33 +0000 http://thatballsouttahere.com/?p=4295 In my youth, I was not a huge baseball card collector.  Most of my forays into the collecting world settled around cards with names that I found amusing.  One player typifies my love for absurd names (No, not Dickie Thon):  Oil Can Boyd.  How the hell did someone get named Oil Can?  His real name is Dennis Ray Boyd.  My ten year old brain could not comprehend how this ridiculous nickname was deemed acceptable for print on something that could conceivably last for eternity.  Looking back, I do not think ole’ Oil Can had the best judgement based on his institutionalization for his temper tantrum for missing the all-star team in the mid-eighties.  But his name was OIL CAN….seriously! (more…)

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