Unaffiliated baseball birthday

December 31, 2010

One of the minor characters in the Black Sox Scandal was a former ballplayer named Billy Graham, who had sought to disguise his identity by changing his name to Maharg. Brilliant disguise.

So in that spirit, Happy Birthday to Loyd Christopher, a close proximity-reversal of the name Christopher Lloyd, who played Sleepy Bill Burns, Maharg’s partner in crime in the film Eight Men Out.

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