Dick Stuart

Throughout his career, Stuart was known as a formidable slugger, but a subpar fielder. In 1963, he led the major leagues with 29 errors, which remains both Stuart\'s career high and the Boston Red Sox single season record for first basemen. Dubbed "Stone Fingers" that same season by none other than Hank Aaron, Stuart would become far better known as "Dr. Strangeglove" following the release of the like-named 1964 film. (In January 1973, almost four years after Stuart\'s retirement, it was noted that the not yet instituted designated hitter "rule would have suited Dr. Strangeglove perfectly.") Other, less well known but equally unflattering nicknames included "Iron Glove" and, in a more literary vein, "The Ancient Mariner", a reference to an opening line in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: specifically, "It is an ancient mariner, And he stoppeth one of thr…