Literary birthday greetings: Little Poison

March 16, 2011

Legend has it that Lloyd Waner and his brother Paul, aka “Big Poison” — both members of the Baseball Hall of Fame — received their nicknames not because they were so lethal at the plate — which they were — but because simply because some Brooklyn fans couldn’t pronounce the word “person” according to the King’s English.

Lloyd was born this date in 1906.

  • Big and Little Poison: Paul and Lloyd Waner, Baseball Brothers, by Parker, 2002.

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