Bruce Sutter

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Bruce Sutter

PostSat Sep 23, 2023 2:28 pm

I was talking to someone and the name Bruce Sutter came up.
I always thought it was pronounced "Sooter" (sounds like booter).
But he said "Sut-ter" (emphasis on the "ut" like butter).

I don't remember hearing his name spoken before, but I'm sure someone here listened to Cubs games in the 70's.
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Re: Bruce Sutter

PostSat Sep 23, 2023 2:40 pm

Pronounced “SUE-ter” - from Baseball Reference. As a long-time Cubs fan, I still remember his split-finger fastball saving many a game. I think the trade to St. Louis caused me to start drinking - that’s my story and I’m sticking with it. : )
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Re: Bruce Sutter

PostSat Sep 23, 2023 3:48 pm

Much appreciated!

That pronunciation has an added benefit: When Sutter was booed in Philadelphia, he would think it was Cubs fans calling out his name.
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Re: Bruce Sutter

PostSun Sep 24, 2023 12:53 am

Sutter's Mill, site of the discovery that started the California Gold Rush, is pronounced like butter. Never heard that pronunciation for Bruce Sutter.
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Re: Bruce Sutter

PostSun Sep 24, 2023 7:27 am

Hockey's Sutter brothers, of which there were six, all of the same Mutter (see what I did there) pronounced their name like the aforementioned "butter".
Brian played for the Blues the same time Bruce was here with the Cardinals.
Whenever he came in I am pretty sure fans yelled "Bruuuuuuce!" which could have been mistaken as booing. But I may be confusing that with Isaac Bruce of the Rams who definitely heard "Bruuuuuuce!" whenever he caught a pass.
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Re: Bruce Sutter

PostMon Sep 25, 2023 8:31 pm

This video from the HOF, in addition to showing a few jaw-dropping examples of his heralded-as-revolutionary split-finger fastball (was it the same pitch as ElRoy Face's forkball?), settles the matter:

It's SUE-ter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmhx98B ... eandMuseum
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Re: Bruce Sutter

PostTue Sep 26, 2023 5:41 pm

Butter Sutter is the correct pronunciation. English word meaning Cobbler. so the Sutter name goes way back to shoemakers/cobblers deriver from German and Dutch words as well. Lots of Names originated from one's trade centuries ago.

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