Editing Fred Dunlap (section)

==="Sure Shot"===
Dunlap was known during his baseball career by the nicknames "Sure Shot" and "King of Second Basemen".<ref name="CAB">{{cite book |author= |url=https://archive.org/details/completearmchair0000unse/page/762 |title=The Complete Armchair book of Baseball |publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |year=1997 |isbn=1-57866-004-1 |editor-last=Thorn |editor-first=John |editor-link=John Thorn |pages=[https://archive.org/details/completearmchair0000unse/page/762 762–764]}}</ref><ref name=Stars/><ref name=Mansfield>{{cite news|title=Fred Dunlap Buried: The Former "King of Second Basemen" Laid To Rest|newspaper=Mansfield News|date=December 5, 1902}}(accessible through newspapers.com)</ref>  Most accounts indicate that the "Sure Shot" nickname arose from Dunlap's powerful and accurate throws to first base.<ref name=WM/> [[King Kelly]] reportedly gave Dunlap the "Sure Shot" nickname after watching him throw.<ref name=Spink/> One account described Dunlap's throwing prowess as follows: "[E]ndless practice made him adept as a monkey at grabbing a sizzling ground ball in either hand and firing it off from the very spot he seized it. His whistling throws, which seemed to clear the grass by no more than half a foot, never seemed to lose more than an inch or two."<ref name=CAB/>

[[Alfred Henry Spink]], who saw Dunlap play, wrote that Dunlap could chase down a ball in the outfield and throw it to home plate "with such fearful speed and accuracy that the ball seemed to sing as it flew."<ref name=Spink/> Dunlap was known for his range in getting to balls that others of his era could not, and he was reportedly able to dive for a ball and throw while lying on the ground with enough velocity to sting the first baseman's hand.<ref name=CAB/> Dunlap was ambidextrous and was able to catch and throw a baseball with the same skill and accuracy with either hand. Moreover, Dunlap reportedly never wore a glove.<ref name=Spink/>

One source gives an entirely different account of how Dunlap obtained the "Sure Shot" nickname. In his book on the history of the [[home run]], Mark Ribowsky wrote that the nickname dated back to a game against the [[Chicago Cubs|Chicago White Stockings]] on July 10, 1880. The White Stockings had won 21 straight games until Dunlap hit a walk-off two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. According to Ribowsky, "For this Shot Heard 'Round Cleveland, Dunlap won the nickname 'Sure Shot.'"<ref>{{cite book |author=Ribowsky |first=Mark |title=The Complete History of the Home Run |publisher=Citadel Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-8065-2433-2 |page=19}}</ref>