Red Grange was so great and popular in college that immediately after signing him as a professional, the Chicago Bears put together a grueling 19-game, 67-day barnstorming tour to make money. This man Red Grange of Illinois is three or four men rolled into one for football purposes, wrote Damon Runyon.
Bud can be a nickname in Irish families, short for Brud (brother). Also supposedly short for Donald. Being a general nickname, short for Buddy is a more modern take on it, which can even be a given name. If you re doing genealogy research, better to research siblings, children, or parents, until you find the given name. Bud is a nickname used since the medieval times.
Bud. Definition. noun, plural: buds. (general) An immature or undeveloped structure that develops into a bodily structure or a new individual. (biology) A small outgrowth from the parent organism, which becomes a new individual; a gemma. (botany) A small swelling or protuberance on a stem or branch of a plant, containing the undeveloped shoot, leaf, or flower. (zoology) A weaned calf on its first year, and whose horns are beginning to bud or form.