"Tristan" now feminine given name

[Brenda Lester]

Typo.


Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:  At 11:23 AM -0500 3/2/06, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>from Paul Johnston:
>
>>  There's also Nefro League Hall of Famer Judy Johnson from the 1920's, also
>>  a Julius, I believe.
>
>"Nefro" IS a typo, isn't it?
>
I was thinking it might have been an obscure offshoot of the Negro
Leagues that was restricted to players sporting Afros, but that does
seem unlikely, especially for the '20s...

LH

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