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Cy (given Name)
Cy is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Cyril, Cyrus or Seymour, and a nickname. It may refer to: In arts and entertainment * Cy Chadwick (born 1969), English actor, director, producer and presenter * Seymour Cy Coben (1919–2006), American songwriter * Cy Coleman (1929–2004), American composer, songwriter and jazz pianist born Seymour Kaufman * Cyril Cy Endfield (1914–1995), American screenwriter, film and theatre director, author, magician and inventor * Seymour Cy Feuer (1911–2006), American theatre producer, director, composer and musician * Cy Gavin (born 1985), American artist * Cyril Cy Grant (1919–2010), Guyanese actor, musician, writer and poet * Cyrus Cy Hungerford (1889–1983), American editorial cartoonist * Cyrus Cy Kendall (1898–1953), American actor * Cyril Cy Laurie (1926–2002), English jazz clarinetist and bandleader * Seymour Cy Leslie (1922–2008), founder of Pickwick Records and first president and founder of MGM/UA Home E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Twombly
Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His best-known works are typically large-scale, freely-scribbled, Calligraphy, calligraphic and graffiti, graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. His later paintings and works on paper shifted toward "romantic symbolism", and their titles can be interpreted visually through shapes and forms and words. Twombly often quoted poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé, Rainer Maria Rilke and John Keats, as well as classical myths and allegories, in his works. Examples of this are his ''Apollo and The Artist'' and a series of eight drawings consisting solely of inscriptions of the word "VIRGIL". Twombly's works are in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Moore
William Austin Moore (February 7, 1905 – March 28, 1972) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched from 1929 to 1934 in the National League The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team .... In October 1933, Moore hit and killed a pedestrian with his car in Henrico County, Virginia. Moore was charged criminally but ultimately acquitted. References External links 1905 births 1972 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Brooklyn Robins players Brooklyn Dodgers players Philadelphia Phillies players Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state) Minor league baseball managers Macon Peaches players Jersey City Skeeters players Baltimore Orioles (International League) players Birmingham Barons players Knoxville Smokies players New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Fried
Arthur Edwin "Cy" Fried (July 23, 1897 – October 9, 1970) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in two games for the Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the American League (AL) Central division. One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the club was f ... in . References External links 1897 births 1970 deaths Detroit Tigers players Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from San Antonio Newport News Shipbuilders players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Buker
Cyril Owen Buker (February 5, 1918 – October 11, 2011) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. The 26-year-old rookie right-hander stood and weighed . Buker is one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the major leagues during World War II. He made his major league debut in relief on May 17, 1945, against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Ebbets Field. His first major league win came in his first start, on June 21, 1945, as the Dodgers defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 9–2 at Shibe Park. Andy Karl was the losing pitcher. His season and career totals for 42 games include a 7–2 record, four games started, 22 games finished, five saves, and an ERA of 3.30 in 87 innings pitched. Besides pitching well, Buker could swing the bat. He was 3-for-16 (.188) with a walk and two runs batted in. Following his Brooklyn days, Buker eventually returned to his hometown of Greenwood, Wisconsin Greenwood is a city in Clark County, Wisconsin, Clar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Block
Seymour "Cy" Block (May 4, 1919 – September 22, 2004) was an American professional baseball second baseman and third baseman for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball during the 1942, 1945, and 1946 seasons. He played in the minor leagues from 1938 to 1950, with the exception of his military service from 1943 to 1944. After his playing career, Block became an insurance salesman. Early life Block was born on May 4, 1919, in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. His parents, Abraham and Jenny (née Levitsky), were immigrants from Russia. He was raised in Flatbush, near Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Block attended Boys High School in Bedford–Stuyvesant, where he was told that he was too small and not good enough to make the school's baseball team. He organized a sandlot ball team and played American Legion Baseball. Baseball career In 1937, Block attended an open tryout for the Dodgers at Ebbets Field; though he survived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Blanton
Darrell Elijah (Cy) Blanton (July 6, 1908 – September 13, 1945) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies. Blanton batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Blanton was a screwball pitcher. Pitching career Blanton grew up in Trousdale, Oklahoma, and was living in Shawnee, Oklahoma, playing on sandlot teams. In 1929 he joined the Shawnee Robins, a C Class team in the Western Association. Blanton was a pitcher for the Independence Producers in 1931. The Independence Producers were a Class C minor league team located in Independence, Kansas. Blanton had twelve wins and eight losses for the season. Blanton was one of the mainstays of the Pittsburgh Pirates rotation in the mid 1930s. He pitched for the Albany Senators in 1934, being promoted to Pittsburgh to pitch one game. Earlier he pitched in the Piedmont League and the Western Association. In his 1935 rookie season he recorded 18 wins with 142 strikeouts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Bentley
Clytus George "Cy" Bentley (November 23, 1850 – February 26, 1873) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played one season in professional baseball, for the Middletown Mansfields of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, National Association. Career Born in East Haven, Connecticut, Bentley played his only season in professional baseball for the Middletown Mansfields. Bentley was the primary starting pitcher for the Mansfields, starting 17 of their 24 games and completing 16 of them. He gave up 285 baserunners (273 hit (baseball), hits and 12 bases on balls, walks), 252 run (baseball), runs, 105 of them were earned run, earned. For the season he win (baseball), won 2, lost 15, and had an earned run average, ERA of 6.14, in 144 innings pitched. Bentley's two victories came against the Cleveland Forest Citys (10-5) and the Washington Nationals (NA), Washington Nationals (28-23), both in the month of May. Death Bentley, an Ironworks, iron m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Barger
Eros Bolivar "Cy" Barger (May 18, 1885 – September 23, 1964) was a right-handed starting pitcher and left-handed batter who played in the American League for the New York Highlanders (1906–07); in the National League with the Brooklyn teams Superbas (1910) and Dodgers (1911–12), and for the Pittsburgh Rebels (1914–15) in the Federal League. A native of Jamestown, Kentucky, Barger was a dead-ball era pitcher who also played first base and shortstop as well as the outfield. He went to college at Transylvania University and debuted in the majors on August 30, 1906. With the Highlanders, he had a 0–0 record in 11 innings pitched over parts of two seasons. In 1909, Barger led Rochester to the Eastern League title with 23 wins and minuscule 1.00 earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Alberts
Frederick Joseph "Cy" Alberts (January 14, 1882 – August 27, 1917) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played in with the St. Louis Cardinals. He batted and threw right-handed. Alberts had a 1–2 record, with a 6.18 ERA, in four games, in his one-year career. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and died in Fort Wayne, Indiana Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Censu .... External links 1882 births 1917 deaths Major League Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Grand Rapids, Michigan St. Louis Cardinals players Fort Wayne Railroaders players Canton Red Stockings players Springfield Babes (baseball) players South Bend Greens players Terre Haute Stags players Terre Haute Miners players Sacramento Sacts players Terre Haute Terre-iers players {{US- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Acosta
Cecilio Acosta Miranda (born 22 November 1946) is a Mexican retired relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played four seasons for the Chicago White Sox and Philadelphia Phillies. Acosta also spend 17 seasons playing in the Mexican League and the Mexican Pacific League. Acosta became the first American League pitcher to make a plate appearance after the introduction of the designated hitter rule in 1973, doing so on 20 June 1973. Career Acosta was born on 22 November 1946 in El Sabino, Guasave Municipality, Sinaloa, Mexico. He made his professional debut in 1966 playing for the Mineros de Fresnillo of the Mexican Central League, a minor league circuit affiliated to the Mexican League, and was promoted in 1968 to the AAA Charros de Jalisco. He played four seasons with the Charros and in 1971 he was signed by the Tucson Toros of the Pacific Coast League. In 1972, Acosta made his MLB debut playing for the Chicago White Sox. On 17 July 2005, Acosta was inducted into the Mexica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cy Thao
Cy Thao (born March 2, 1972) is a Laos, Laotian-born Hmong American politician who served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011. Early life and education In 1975, Thao's family fled from Communists in Laos and lived in a refugee camp in Thailand until moving to the United States in 1980. Shortly thereafter, he joined the Boy Scouts of America and attained the rank of Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), Eagle Scout. He credits Scouting with helping him blend into American society and teaching him the values of community obligation. Thao is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM). Career A Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Democrat, Thao was first elected in 2002. He did not seek re-election in 2010, and left office on January 3, 2011. Thao represented District 65A, which includes portions of Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul. See also * History of the Hmong in Minneapolis–Saint Paul References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
