Comments on: Super masculine baseball cards from 1887

By: unsatisfied

unsatisfied — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:35:06 +0000

on that wiki page for pud:

“Galvin was the first baseball player to be widely known for using performance-enhancing drugs. In 1889, over 100 years before the current steroid controversy in Major League Baseball, Galvin openly used the Brown-Séquard elixir, which contained monkey testosterone.[1]”

barry bonds, eat your heart out.

By: bucdaddy

bucdaddy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:49:47 +0000

Or nicknamed Pud, whatever.

By: bucdaddy

bucdaddy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:49:07 +0000

Pud Galvin is one of only two people in all of history named “Pud.” The other is that kid in the little (terribly uncomic) comic strip “Funnies starring Pud” that used to come wrapped around Bazooka bubble gum. And maybe still does, for all I know. I can’t imagine that in an age of Adam Sandler they’ve gotten any funnier though.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:25:32 +0000

I think that “Pud” is quite possibly the greatest nickname of all time.

By: Clementine

Clementine — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:00:52 +0000

Oops, don’t know why the link doesn’t work, but just copy and paste this phrase into Google and it’s the first result…

FINDS A MASTODON’S TUSK.; Contractor Picks It Up on the Allegheny’s Banks, Near Pittsburg