# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1582
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31624 "2014-12-03T05:06:57Z")
Real and fictional pirates 1. Captain James Hook 2. Captain Jack Sparrow 3. Captain Long John Silver 4. Captain Henry Morgan, of spiced rum fame 5. Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard 6. Yellowbeard! (Stumble, stumble, crawl, crawl…) 7. Captain “Red” Ned Lynch (Robert Shaw - “Swashbuckler”) 8. Elcid Barrett, immortlized by Stan Rogers’ classic “Barrett’s Privateers” 9. Jean LaFitte 10. Captain (Peter) Blood - Errol Flynn 11. Jean LaFoote - Cap’n Crunch 12. Capt. William Kidd 13. The Dread Pirate Roberts I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31625 "2014-12-03T05:19:15Z")
Can’t believe no one mentioned a Pittsburgh Pirate. Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31626 "2014-12-03T14:20:46Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie Number 13 on the previous Pirates list could have been Curt Roberts, who formed the double play combination with Gair Alie, both of them batting below the Mendoza line. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31627 "2014-12-03T14:34:27Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31628 "2014-12-03T14:47:22Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31629 "2014-12-03T15:37:25Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds (Still couldn’t throw out Sid Bream (who was also a Pirate, early in his career), however. 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31630 "2014-12-03T16:06:24Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner. Trivia note for Pitares fans. The only time there were three outfielders together on the same team who had brothers that would go into the Hall of Fame – Lloyd and Paul, brothers of each other, and Joe’s brother Vince DiMaggio. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31631 "2014-12-03T16:15:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > How about the Beatles in _The Lord of the Rings_? …imagine what the movie would have been like. My eyes! _My eyes!!!_ Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner 7. Dave Parker I grew up just west of Pittsburgh in the Pirates’ glory days of the late Seventies/early Eighties. Good times. Not sure Gair Allie qualifies as “famous,” though… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31632 "2014-12-03T16:39:18Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner 7. Dave Parker 8. Bobby Bonilla ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31633 "2014-12-03T17:05:26Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner 7. Dave Parker 8. Bobby Bonilla 9. What the… I’M the first to mention the magnificent ROBERTO CLEMENTE??? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31634 "2014-12-03T17:45:46Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner 7. Dave Parker 8. Bobby Bonilla 9. What the… I’M the first to mention the magnificent ROBERTO CLEMENTE??? 10. Danny Murtaugh (Manager) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31635 "2014-12-03T18:10:47Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner 7. Dave Parker 8. Bobby Bonilla 9. What the… I’M the first to mention the magnificent ROBERTO CLEMENTE??? 10. Danny Murtaugh (Manager) 11. Ralph Kiner ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31636 "2014-12-03T18:21:35Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner 7. Dave Parker 8. Bobby Bonilla 9. What the… I’M the first to mention the magnificent ROBERTO CLEMENTE??? 10. Danny Murtaugh (Manager) 11. Ralph Kiner 12. Dock Ellis ---
**Author:** ![Nelson\_Pike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Nelson\_Pike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nelson_Pike)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31637 "2014-12-03T18:37:06Z")
Famous Pittsburgh Pirates: 1. Bill Mazeroski 2. Gair Allie 3. Honus Wagner 4. Willie Stargell 5. Barry Bonds 6. Hall of Fame brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner 7. Dave Parker 8. Bobby Bonilla 9. What the… I’M the first to mention the magnificent ROBERTO CLEMENTE??? 10. Danny Murtaugh (Manager) 11. Ralph Kiner 12. Dock Ellis 13. Steve Blass Famous Detroit Tigers: 1. Al Kaline ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31638 "2014-12-03T18:52:48Z")
Famous Detroit Tigers: 1. Al Kaline 2. Sparky Anderson ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31639 "2014-12-03T19:16:02Z")
Famous Detroit Tigers: 1. Al Kaline 2. Sparky Anderson 3. Ty Cobb ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31640 "2014-12-03T19:24:17Z")
Famous Detroit Tigers 1. Al Kaline 2. Sparky Anderson 3. Ty Cobb 4. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31641 "2014-12-03T19:24:56Z")
Famous Detroit Tigers: 1. Al Kaline 2. Sparky Anderson 3. Ty Cobb 4. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych 5. Hank Greenburg ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31642 "2014-12-03T19:33:00Z")
Famous Detroit Tigers: 1. Al Kaline 2. Sparky Anderson 3. Ty Cobb 4. Mark “The Bird” Fidrych 5. Hank Greenburg 6. Alan Trammell ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/31643 "2014-12-03T19:49:35Z")
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