Wednesday, December 18, 2013

A Christmas Story movie trivia: sports trivia

While reading the newspaper at the kitchen table, the "Old Man" angrily mentions that the "Sox traded Bullfrog". This is a reference to longtime Chicago White Sox pitcher Bill Dietrich, whose nickname was Bullfrog. He pitched during the 1930s and 1940s. Dietrich was never traded from the Sox, he was released September 18, 1946.

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