Quickie Quiz

Haven’t  done a quiz in awhile and the post on Newk’s Time this morning got me thinking: How did Sonny Rollins get the nickname Newk?

Yes, Rudolf, that is correct. Here’s a picture of Don Newcombe in his Dodgers uniform in the mid-1950s. And below is our Newk in a different kind of uniform.

One Response to “Quickie Quiz”

  1. Rudolf A. Flinterman Says:

    because of Sonny’s facial ressemblance to Don Newcombe, a baseball player.


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