Baseball

So named by the young son of a photographer who covered the Red Sox. The boy didn’t know Ted’s last name so when asked by his dad about who he wanted to see at the game, he replied “I want to see Teddy.” His dad said “Teddy Who?” The son replied, “Teddy Ballgame.”

The photographer, Fred Kaplan, told Ted about it and Williams loved the story so much that Teddy Ballgame became his preferred nickname.