OOTP X Name of the Week

[Brick]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

"Did you ever notice that players named 'White' are almost always black, and players named 'Black' are usually white?" - Bill James, 1983 Baseball Abstract

Which explains Cecil and Prince Fielder.

Bill's follow up observation only mentioned Cecil since Prince was just in diapers then.

[Brick]

Originally Posted by Killing Time

Real life baseball names, from Wikipedia

* Jeff Bagwell, Retired MLB 1st Baseman
* Grant Balfour, MLB Middle Reliever
* Brian Cashman, general manager of the New York Yankees, who consistently have the highest payroll in MLB.
* Cecil Fielder and son Prince Fielder
* Eric Gagné, French-Canadian major league baseball pitcher, whose last name translates from French to "win"
* Butch Huskey, Major League Baseball player (Huskey had a husky build, weighing 255 pounds)
* Derek Jeter, New York Yankees shortstop (jeter is French for "to throw")
* Josh Outman, Oakland Athletics pitcher
* Charlie Spikes, former Major League Baseball player

Bob Walk pitched for the Phillies, Braves and Pirates. He is currently a broadcaster for the Pirates.

There have been several Homers of which the lastest is Bailey of the Reds.

[tylertoo]

Originally Posted by esovia23

No lie, my 7th grade English teacher's name was "Richard Wacker". Of course we all just called him Dick Wacker.

I went to grade school with a guy named Herman Dick. I always felt bad for him. Saddled with a horrible last name, his parents went ahead and chose Herman for his first name, guaranteeing him years of schoolyard abuse.

[Malleus Dei]

I first posted this years ago.

Real people I have known:

Justin Case
Rose Pillow*
(they got married; her married name was Rose Pillow Case)
Rusty Gates
Rick Shaw
Happy Beaver (he changed it the day he turned 18)
Sandy Bottoms
Brown Trout
Lake Trout
Brook Trout
Rainbow Trout
Bigby Hinds
Phuc Yu Tseng (pronounced just as badly as you can imagine)
Joseph Phuc Lee (ditto)
Cole Black

and the worst of all:

Pez Dispenza

[Daern]

My three-time all-star catcher's name is Bryan O'Brien.

[Athletics17]

a Pitcher for the Phoenix Rifles is named Sancho Francisco.

[hfield007]

Originally Posted by esovia23

No lie, my 7th grade English teacher's name was "Richard Wacker". Of course we all just called him Dick Wacker.

My Trigonometry teach was Mr. Bator... of course you can guess what some referred to him as.

[PotatoPeeler]

In the CBU, Bobbbuttons has a pitcher named Raymond Raymond.

[John C]

In my solo league, the Chicago Cubs have a defensive whiz at shortstop, who goes by the name of Newt Yuke. I just find the name fascinating, is all.

[tombair]

There was a Rich Player once...but he wasn't talented enough to become a rich player.

I worked on the names files so I don't get a lot of bizarre names anymore. The best I have now is Ray Ray.


I do have Jim Zorn, but I don't know how much longer he'll be around.

[munstermash]

Soup Sample

not kidding

[John C]

Oh, I do remember that the LA Dodgers' double-play combination is Bobby Jones at shortstop, and Bob Jones at second.

Bob Jones played for the Braves, and was dealt to the Dodgers right before the trade deadline. A week later, the Braves decided to be lazy and not take the nameplate off the jersey; they went out and made a trade with Kansas City, to acquire a different Bobby Jones.

[SlimJim75]

My league had a draftee this year named "Joe King".

[Timeless]

Best one I've seen so far: Hideo Gonzalez

[Killing Time]

Dick Roach.

[BMW]

I just got the best name ever.

I've been simming into the very far future. I'm in the 2250s, so I have the history of baseball from 1871-2256 right now. Nearly 300 years.

I came home from work today to see where I was and if anyone broke the all time hits and home run records. I saw that someone did break the HR record.

I see that the guy hit 900 HR and that he also hit 75 in a single year to break the single season record. (This guy hit 903 HR, including a 1.000+ OPS and 46 HR in 108 games at age 40 when he got a career ending injury of all things!)

Anyway, I digress; when I open up the single season HR leaderboards, the 4th guy on the list is Cy Young. Id do a double take. But no, it's true! A guy on the Phillies named Cy Young hit 68 home runs in 2255. And, looking at his career, he's a shoe-in HOFer. He's 29, a six time all star, 3 time MVP and has bout 470+ career home runs already. Not only a second Cy Young, but a second HOF Cy Young!

[Afino]

I just saw a Jon Gosselin in my player pool. He was Asian.


I have no further comment, but the end of the world is near.

[damientheomen3]

In my major solo league, there are players named:

Mike Myers
Edward Wall, a 265 lb. catcher
Ralph Kay, a starting pitcher with great stuff
Many pitchers with terrible control and a last name of Walker
Pete Short, 5'9" second baseman

Juan Tofoli, not a cool name but he's friggin 7 feet tall!

[His Own Bad Self]

Originally Posted by Malleus Dei

"Did you ever notice that players named 'White' are almost always black, and players named 'Black' are usually white?" - Bill James, 1983 Baseball Abstract

One of my favorite passages of his ever... "Scott Brown is not any browner than anyone else, Vida is definitely not blue, nor for that matter is Darryl Motley."

[Bumstead]

Just traded for a player in my online league named Mei Wang...probably not pronounced My Wang but still...