During the game, announcer Red Barber states that Loes was the son of Greek immigrants who had changed his last name.
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However, according to "Colonel" Bob Edwards's book Fridays with Red, Barber claimed that Thurber got this and many other expressions from him, and that Barber had first heard the term used during a poker game in Cincinnati during the Great Depression.