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Gaylord

American  
[gey-lawrd] / ˈgeɪˌlɔrd /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry pitched a complete game for his 300th victory in 1982, and he changed his jersey after every inning, creating nine authentic artifacts he could peddle.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2024

It was set up in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, a US senator and environmentalist, and Denis Hayes, a graduate student at Harvard University.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2024

With the baseball world congregated at the Gaylord Opryland for this year’s winter meetings, the NBA continued its popular in-season tournament with two quarterfinal matchups Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Twelve votes were needed to earn election from the committee, which voted Sunday to kick off the MLB winter meetings at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023

At six-thirty on a brisk Thursday morning, the ground still frozen hard, Gaylord Stuckey walked out on the boardwalk to the largest of the pools, expecting to have the place to himself.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer