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Scribbled Notes on a Cocktail Napkin

Make Nicknames Great Again

Scribbled Notes on a Cocktail Napkin: a rhetorical question about Barry Bonds as the greatest athlete without a nickname prompts a deeper dive

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Scribbling from Sugar Land

It was supposed to be a rhetorical question, a paragraph within a longer essay about Barry Bonds’ long-term public persona. But a couple days later, it seems like a subject worthy of this week’s “Scribbled Notes on a Cocktail Napkin.”

Let me start by quoting myself:

He never even had a nickname. Think about that. What was Barry B…

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