Ted Radcliffe was a professional baseball player, who played for the Negro League from 1928 to 1950. He was nicknamed "Double Duty" by Damon Ruynon.
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"Few of us get a perfect nickname that is both a compliment and lasts a lifetime, but Ted Radcliffe, a wonderful old Negro League ballplayer who died last week at the age of 103, was very fortunate.
"Known as 'Double Duty,' or as just plain 'Duty,' Mr. Radcliffe earned the appellation by catching the first game of a doubleheader and then pitching the second game during the 1932 Negro League World Series at Yankee Stadium."
—Fay Vincent, "Radcliffe made quite a name for himself," The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 15, 2005.
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