# Great ballplayer names **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2000, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032 "2000-09-29T17:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2000, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/41 "2000-09-30T12:52:13Z")
Drungo Larue Hazewood - former Orioles farmhand. Jacque Jones - current Twin Milton Bradley - current Expo (unless they’ve sent him back to Ottawa again) Howard Johnson ---
**Author:** ![Gabz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/838e76/32.png) [@Gabz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gabz)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/42 "2000-10-01T15:39:42Z")
It’s only college footbal - but the kid is real good Butter Pressy ---
**Author:** ![Sweet\_Sue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Sweet\_Sue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweet_Sue)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/43 "2000-10-02T00:55:32Z")
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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/44 "2000-10-02T05:29:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > > \*\*In hockey, I think “Zarley Zapasky” rolls off the tongue quite nicely. \*\* > > It’s actually “Zarley Zalapski”. > > I always thought Miroslav Satan should have played for the New Jersey Devils. > \*\* It may be a smidge juvenile, but I will NEVER fail to crack up when I check out a Sabres box score and notice that Satan scored a power-play goal. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/45 "2000-10-02T08:01:54Z")
\*\*Napoleon Lajoie Ugeth Urbina Mordecai ‘Three Fingers’ Brown Rube Wadell Thurman Munson ---
**Author:** ![eponymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@eponymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eponymous)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/46 "2000-10-02T13:41:13Z")
Baseball - Virgil Trucks - Pitcher, Detroit - 40’s - Horace Speed - Outfielder, Cleveland - 80’s - Elroy Face - Pitcher, Pittsburgh Pirates - 50’s & 60’s - Eli Grba - Pitcher, Minnesota Twins (?) - 70’s (?) - Al “The Mad Hungarian” Hrabosky - Pitcher, St. Louis/Kansas City - 80’s - Everett Booe - Catcher, Pittsburgh - 20’s (?) and I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned this gem: - Wonderful Terrific Monds - minor leaguer Basketball - Bill “The Voweless Owl” Mlkvy - played for Temple U. - Dikembe Mutombo - Maute Bol - Mugsy Bogues - Spud Webb ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/47 "2000-10-02T14:17:20Z")
How could I forget this name. Played on the same name as Stubby (yeah, does sound like a STD). **Scarborough Green** Saw him playing yesterday, for the Rangers, I think. ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/48 "2000-10-02T14:20:40Z")
Played on the same **team** as… (Note to self: Read preview.) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/49 "2000-10-02T16:08:11Z")
While Crumpler is a good name, I present thess Fightin’ Irish as best football names possible: Michael Stonebreaker Grant Irons Arnaz Battle Knute Rockne Tony Driver Tim Grunhard Raghib Ishmael Moose Krause Bronko Nagurski Bill Shakespeare Worst: Johnny “One Play” O’Brien Corny Southall (not a nickname) And oddly enough, there were two players named Norb Rascher. Yes, with a “B”. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/50 "2000-10-03T17:14:53Z")
How 'bout: Harry Gant from NASCAR, Garo Ypremian Ty Law and Lawyer Milloy Ara Parseghian (always sounded like a veal dish to me…) Otis Nixon Dick Butkus Larry Csonka ---
**Author:** ![Dignan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dignan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dignan)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/51 "2000-10-03T17:29:40Z")
Yes, I was going to mention Wonderful Terrific Monds, and current Nebraska I-Back Thunder Collins (it’s on his birth certificate). The strange thing is that neither of these guys is the first to have their name. Monds is the III and Collins is the II. As for Major Applewhite, doesn’t that just scream southern white guy? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/52 "2000-10-03T17:38:32Z")
Zeke “Banananose” Bonura, ChiSox '34-'37, Senators '38 & '40, Giants '39, Cubs '40. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/53 "2000-10-03T18:51:52Z")
**Oddibe McDowell Bill Monbouquette Chico Carrasquel Wilhelmus Abraham Remerswaal** ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/54 "2000-10-03T20:44:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Connor \* > \*\*While Crumpler is a good name, I present thess Fightin’ Irish as best football names possible: > > \*\* You forgot Hiawatha Francisco 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/55 "2000-10-03T20:47:10Z")
Marion Butts ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/56 "2000-10-03T22:53:45Z")
Jayhawk Owens, who was a catcher for the Colorado Rockies a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/57 "2000-10-04T03:25:30Z")
Anyone remember **I.M. Hipp** , a Nebraska (Oklahoma?) tailback from the late 70’s/early 80’s? ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/58 "2000-10-04T03:57:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manduck \* > \*\*Marion Butts \*\* Okay, good. See, I was just gonna ask if there was a football player with that last name. I thought maybe I had hallucinated it, or that it was a joke and his first name was Seymour. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/59 "2000-10-04T14:01:10Z")
Wasn’t there a group with the names Ham, Lamb and Jam at UT a few years ago? Some loser Longhorn tell me who I’m thinking about. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-ballplayer-names/35032/60 "2000-10-04T23:21:36Z")
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