In addition to the previously mentioned Wonderful Monds of the New Haven Ravens, I’d want to stock my minor league team with Clyde Clay “Porkchop” Pough of the Trenton Red Sox.
But since it’s Series time, better load up on good major league pitching. I’ll take Chief Bender, Virgil Trucks, Van Lingle Mungo and of course, Urban Shocker.
I always feel kind of bad for whichever Capitals winger has to play on the Brooks Laich/Alexander Semin line.
The Detroit Tigers had Rusty Kuntz.
And the Detroit Lions had Harry Colon.
I only know NFL examples.
T.J. Houshmandzadeh ties that, but Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie beats it with 16 letters and a hyphen (17 characters).
Chris Fuamatu-Ma’afala should get a shout-out for having both a hyphen AND an apostrophe in his last name.
And both Rodgers-Cromartie and Antonio Cromartie make me think of some sort of disease. It’s the Cromartie part - “doctor, the patient seems to have a violent case of Cromartie!” Don’t know why.
And there was a Formula One driver named Scott Speed.
Gaylord Perry
I don’t watch baseball usually, but it’s the finals.
Seen in Game 3 PHI vs. LAA… Phillies had to go deep in their roster for some reason and they pulled up a pitcher to the mound with the last name “Bastardo”.
Yep, he looked hispanic to me.
Here’s a pic of the famous Pusey.
I should add that I as well say “Amani Toomer” in Arnold’s voice, and also always think of Gil “Ga” Meche. (not Mesh, but pronounced that way.)
Joe
Urban Shocker was a pitcher for the Yankees and Browns from 1916 through 1928.
Mickey Klutts played for the Yankees, A’s and Blue Jays from 1976 through 1983.
I’ve always been amused by Jason Veritek’s name, but that’s mostly because I’m a huge geek. (And the image of Veritechs playing baseball is awesome.)
Karmichael Hunt is a local rugby player. One hopes that commentators can avoid spoonerisms when he’s playing.
There’s another football (soccer) player goes by the name of Danny Invincible.
He’s a boon for tabloid newspaper sports headline writers.
How could I forget Fuamatu-Ma’afala! That was a beaut.
Okay so then we can have Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada FAKE to Obafemi Ayenbadejo, then pitch it Chris Fumatu-Ma’afala to who will then run behind the block of Corey Lekkerkerker.
If we can go back in time a bit, we can even have him get tackled by Manu Tuiasosopo.
Wide receiver Fair Hooker and kicker Happy Feller. You can ruminate over a “wide receiver” named Fair Hooker.
It’s not at all an unusual name in Czech, but if you translate it directly to English Jaromir Jagr’s name comes to something like “Springpeace Hunter.”
I’ll raise you to 20 letters (and here’s his jersey).
To my mind, the euphony of Djamolidine Abdoujaparov is hard to beat. It trips off the tongue beautifully.
Wow. First round draft pick and played in only 3 games. Had 5 plate appearances with 4 strikeouts. What is the story here? Flameout? What made you think of this guy? Are you an old school O’s fan? Remember “Tonight, let it be Lowenstein?”
Some west coast A.L. team has a pitcher named Putz. The announcers always call him “Poots” (which is bad enough in itself), but I’m not fooled. He’s a Putz, now and forever. I’d buy his jersey!
Not really a weird or funny name, but I love to say D’Brickashaw Ferguson out loud. It fairly rolls off the tongue. I applaud Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson for having the foresight to name their future NFL linesman D’Brickashaw.
Too bad he’s a Jet.
New York Mets (NL East) J.J. Putz is a former closer for the Seattle Mariners. As far as I know it was always pronounced putz by the sportscasters here in Seattle.
The man himself pronounces it ‘puts.’
