Stanky

A lot of people got a lot of joy out of Davies's rendition of the Stanky Leg during U.S. international play.

Charlie Davies on the bear hug, the Stanky Leg, Georgetown and Raclette Dan Steinberg 2011

United's new forward and, in a wide-ranging column, explores French cheese, the Stanky Leg and Honduran hostels.

Charlie Davies, D.C. United's goalkeeper search, Colombian trialist, Danny Szetela arrested, WPS schedule Steve Goff 2011

Stanky, as well as Bill Rigney and Alvin Dark, turned and suddenly saw Monte Irvin.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

The Willamette flows South to North - so may be an issue with dropping it into the Big Stanky which I believe flows opposite.

In Transition: Livable Streets, Lovable Lenses BikeSnobNYC 2010

On the bases, Dark and Stanky explained how to stay in a hot box so other runners could advance and how to draw throws to protect the trailing runner.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

Anticipating a hit-and-run, the Yankees pitched out and appeared to have guessed correctly—Stanky was trying to steal.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

I got the claim for fame being the next-best bench jockey to Leo Durocher and Eddie Stanky, and when I got up to pinch-hit or something, I got knocked right on my tail, but my first year was a thrill down to the end when Bobby Thomson hit the home run off Ralph Branca.

It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Counts Fay Vincent 2010

… And then we had all these white guys, and a lot of them were Southerners—Dark, Stanky, Lockman, Hearn, Kennedy, at least a dozen others.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

I guess the reason for Red going over to shortstop was that Eddie Stanky was going to make himself a player-manager.

It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Counts Fay Vincent 2010

But they were led by fine pitching, the double-play combination of Dark and Stanky, and the emergence of Irvin as a consistent force at the plate.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010