re: Athletes better known by nicknames

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I have no idea what 'Crazy Legs' Hirsch real name is?

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Elroy -- but he claimed he no longer responded to that name, since everybody called him "Legs"

Trivia: He tried acting for awhile, and played a convict in the film Unchained (which gave the world the song "Unchained Melody") and as a pilot in Zero Hour, the film parodied by Airplane -- he plays the Peter Graves role, getting food poisoning and even showing a kid around the cockpit!