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Feliz Cumpleaņos Fonzie (or not)?

G-Fafif Aug 11 2011 07:07 AM

Caught a note in ESPN NY's daily Mets news roundup that today is Edgardo Alfonzo's birthday, which didn't sound right to me. His commonly listed birthday is November 8, but baseball-reference and Retrosheet have it as August 11. Of course what we refer to as 8/11 is referred to almost everywhere else as 11/8. My guess (and I sort of remember this maybe coming up here before) is Fonzie's birthday was transposed for years and, post-9/11, when everybody got nervous about proper ID, this type of thing got corrected. Still, November 8 is listed most everywhere but the aforementioned sites (which I trust more than most everybody else). Either way, 38th happy birthday sometime this year to my favorite Met position player ever.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 11 2011 07:23 AM Re: Feliz Cumpleaņos Fonzie (or not)?

He'll always be 13 to me.

metirish Aug 11 2011 07:29 AM Re: Feliz Cumpleaņos Fonzie (or not)?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: He'll always be 13 to me. Hold on while I wipe my eyes....lol Of course what we refer to as 8/11 is referred to almost everywhere else as 11/8. Even after all these years of being here , coming up on 17 years this September 10th I still have to think at times about writing dates, and to really confuse things in my job we use a German made machine that of course has Day/Month/Year when you enter birth dates. ...except 9/11 of course....

Frayed Knot Aug 11 2011 07:37 AM Re: Feliz Cumpleaņos Fonzie (or not)?

I always figured it was the year in Fonzie's birthday that was in question, not the date.