From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!miker@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Name the Shortstop Article-I.D.: nsc.158 Posted: Thu May 13 17:57:50 1982 Received: Fri May 14 05:35:11 1982 "I don't give a Damn." (I never was sure which part of that phrase was the shortstop's name.) There used to be (in the 1890s) a character in St. Louis who was known as "Don't Give a Damn". He earned this nickname by going to Paris just to order a drink. I believe, without checking sources, he was related to Tom Turpin, the ragtime piano player. The story may be found in "They All Played Ragtime" by Rudi Blesh.