Charley or Charlie Taylor? Redskins HOF receiver.

zef204

Anyone have any insight as to why his cards from 65-69 say Charley and from 70-74 they say Charlie?

Southerncards

Not a clue but name changes are not unusual. Bob sounded more American in the 50's and 60's but Roberto was cool from 1970 on

pandrews

theres your answer, Zef.. Charlie just sounds more American than Charley..

CDsNuts

I thought Charlie was Vietnamese. At least that's what my Uncle Jack used to say when he told us war stories.

Lee

TJMAC

Southern, funny you say that, he was Roberto in 1955 and 1956.

GDM67

I'm fairly sure that #42 prefers "Charley." That's how it's spelled in all of the media guides that I have, on the Hall of Fame's website and most everywhere else I've ever seen it.

It's also well known that Clemente despised having his name "Americanized" like that. He was cool with people who knew him calling him something like that, or worse (Dock Ellis used to call him "Clementine" ), but as a matter of trying to change who he was officially, it really rubbed him the wrong way.

Southerncards

<< <i>Southern, funny you say that, he was Roberto in 1955 and 1956. >>



Yeah its kind of odd, but it seems like Topps went back and forth with it.