# It appears I'm a not very good pro baseball player (googling your real name) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475 "2005-03-27T18:29:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/1 "2005-03-27T18:29:01Z")
I’ve just googled my real life name to find out that I am a not-very-good baseball player. I’m also some kind of quack “lifestyle coach”. I also show up in some very dull pages about financial brokerage (but that really is me). So what are you? ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/2 "2005-03-27T18:37:17Z")
Well apparently I’m a now deceased Air Force General as well as the author of Resistance and Integration. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/3 "2005-03-27T18:40:39Z")
Apparently my name is quite rare, because I seem to be nothing more than a 25 year old male resident of the Isle of Man. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/4 "2005-03-27T18:41:06Z")
Google very helpfully “fixes” the spelling of my last name because I share a name with a very famous American historical figure. The name is common enough that there are 10’s of thousands of hits. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/5 "2005-03-27T18:46:23Z")
It appears that I am a budget analyst/college professor in Sacramento (my father), and a police sgt. in Wheeling (no one I’ve heard of). ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/6 "2005-03-27T18:52:23Z")
I am the head of the Computer Science department at Cambridge (same middle initial, too; doubly coincidental considering I’m a former CompSci major). I’m also apparently a big-name TV news anchorman in Australia. Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/7 "2005-03-27T20:12:04Z")
I still seem to be the only one of me, unsurprisingly. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/8 "2005-03-27T20:14:22Z")
I’m a very well-regarded optometrist in Kansas City. Somewhere he’s on a message board saying 'hey, I’m a professional musician in Wisconsin" We are two, he & I. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/9 "2005-03-27T21:00:20Z")
I am a professor of cowboy literature at Emporia State University in Kansas, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/10 "2005-03-27T21:28:49Z")
I used to be the head chef at a pricey North Carolina resort but I seem to have moved on to another job that doesn’t have a website. ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/11 "2005-03-27T22:31:00Z")
I am a nun. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/12 "2005-03-27T22:31:34Z")
Apparently I am a member of the Executive Women’s Golf Association of Santa Barbara. I hate golf. After my name change is complete (stupid social security office, only open M-F 9-4) I am an account director for a company that manages sponsorship between Kraft Foods and NASCAR. I hate NASCAR but I like Mac-n-Cheese, so I suppose I’ll take what I can get. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/13 "2005-03-27T22:37:14Z")
I’m just me, although I apparently belong to a lot a geeky mailing lists. That can’t be true… (A friend of mine discovered his wife’s ‘other life’ as a call-girl through Googling her name 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/14 "2005-03-27T23:00:25Z")
Let’s see, I’m a Chicago man whos wife suffered a head injury, an historian who specializes in the far east, and evidently a man who was abused by his wife in Texas. Further investigation shows me as a man who writes Highlander fan fiction (hangs head in shame). ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/15 "2005-03-27T23:07:03Z")
I’m a motown musician who’s toured and played with the likes of Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Aretha Franklin. In the UK, i appear to be an author of books abuot peace and forgiveness. And in my home country of Australia, i’m a doctor who is also a policy expert in motor vehicle safety and bicycle safety. ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/16 "2005-03-28T00:17:05Z")
I am a former baseball player and latterly (quite good, apparently) baseball coach at, amongst others, the Boston RedSox. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/17 "2005-03-28T00:39:13Z")
I mostly come up as an environmental engineer, but I’m also apparently the Treasurer of the Nanuet Hebrew Center, the President of the United Jewish Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit, a childrens’ ministry leader at the Cary Church of God (trying to cover all my bases), a real estate agent, and a recent Future Business Leaders of America Businessperson of the Year. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/18 "2005-03-28T00:52:45Z")
I’m the only me in the Googleverse. But someone with my brother’s name has a wishlist on Amazon – which I discovered when I tried to find his wishlist and found one filled with New Age books. I just tried looking my brother up on Google, and the first few listings actually are for him, but apparently he’s also a salesman for the cargo division of a major airline. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/19 "2005-03-28T00:59:55Z")
Aperently I’m some sort of proffesor (several times over), an obscure fictional character, and a soldier with the nick-name of “Psyco.” I’m also a “gifted child,” a luitenent _and_ a private in some sort of armed forces, a member of the Butler township in the 1800’s, and part of the “International Lightning Class New England District.” Intersting, considering the odd spelling of my last name. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475/20 "2005-03-28T01:03:15Z")
I’ve never found anything interesting under my name… but my mom was apparently a playboy playmate and softcore porn actress. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-appears-im-a-not-very-good-pro-baseball-player-googling-your-real-name/296475.md?page=2)