Comments on: Bill James and the Cock-Lebur http://www.fangraphs.com/not/bill-james-and-the-cock-lebur/ Daily not graphy things Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:32:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Choo http://www.fangraphs.com/not/bill-james-and-the-cock-lebur/#comment-606 Choo Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:19:47 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=1399#comment-606 In Malay, “lebur” means “dissolved”, so “cock lebur” could be something as simple as chicken broth. Or it could be the most horrendous chem lab catastrophe imaginable.

Also, in France, Coldcock Malt Liquor is known as “Cock Le Burr.”

]]> By: ChrisDTX http://www.fangraphs.com/not/bill-james-and-the-cock-lebur/#comment-561 ChrisDTX Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:34:32 +0000 http://www.fangraphs.com/not/?p=1399#comment-561 Oddly, Charles Hudson was one of the starting pitchers in the first baseball game I ever attended (’84 Phillies), and later also started the first game in which I saw my favorite team (’89 Tigers). I always thought he was a cock-lebur. It’s nice to have confirmation of this from a third party.

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