Talk:Fatty Briody

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Briody's obituary notes that he spent 9 years as a boy in Wisconsin.[[1] Cbl62 00:49, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fatty, not Charles

The subject of this article, Fatty Briody, was known as a player as Fatty Briody, not Charles F. Briody. Every major work on baseball history (Total Baseball, The Baseball Encyclopedia, Baseball-reference.com, the Baseball Almanac, etc.) identifies him as Fatty Briody, not Charles F. Briody. I created the artilce under the name Fatty Briody and believe that is the appropriate listing. In the case of baseball player biographies, where a person is listed in every authoritative work by a particular name, that is the name used in Wikipedia. No different than Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean (not Jermoe Hanna Dean), Goose Goslin (not Leon Allen Goslin), Heinie Manush (not Henry Emmett Manush), Sparky Anderson (not George Lee Anderson), Lefty Grove (not Robert Moses Grove), Chief Bender (not Charles Albert Bender), Cap Anson (not Adrian Constantine Anson), Kid Elberfeld (not Norman Arthur Elberfeld), Skeeter Webb (not James Laverne Webb), Bobo Newsom (not Louis Norman Newsom), Rube Waddell (not George Edward Waddell), and the list goes on and on. The same rule is followed in other fields, where Wikipedia includes articles for Fats Domino (not Antoine Domino), Buzz Aldrin (not Edwin Eugene Aldrin), Slash (not Saul Hudson), Red Skelton (not Richard Bernard Skelton), and Cher (not Cheryl Sarkisian LaPierre). Briody was always known at the time as Fatty Briody, and that is how he is also listed in every authoritative baseball publication (Total Baseball, Baseball Encyclopedia, Baseball-Reference.com, Baseball Almanac, etc.) Cbl62 02:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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