Names With Zing

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 6/13/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Park Overall once had a continuing part on some sitcom or other.
> As a teenager, I knew a guy named Maynard Overall.

And then of course there's the major-league pitcher Orval Overall, who
powered the Chicago Cubs to their most recent World Series win... in
1908. Teammates included Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown and Tinker to
Evers to Chance.


--Ben Zimmer

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