Bruce Sutter

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.

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. : )

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.

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

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.

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

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.