Baseball Player or Not?
Baseball has sure had its share of unusual names. Baseball has also had football's share, basketball's share and golf's share. But they do not have a corner on the unusual name market. Below is a test. Did or does the person play baseball for a living or do something else:
Shooty Babitt: baseball player or golfer?
Salome Barojas: baseball player or belly dancer?
Pelham Ballenger: baseball player or railroad tycoon?
Stud Bancker: baseball player or fictional detective?
Rivington Bisland: baseball player or poet?
Kimera Bartee: baseball player or Japanese movie monster?
Hiram Bocachica: baseball player or Attorney General of Florida?
Ping Bodie: baseball player or rodeo rider?
Putsy Caballero: baseball player or character in Huey, Duey and Louie comic books?
Keefe Cato: baseball player or friend of OJ Simpson
Italo Chelini: baseball player or opera singer?
Gowell Claset: baseball player or mayor of Springfield MA during the witch trials?
Bunk Congalton: baseball player or Wild West outlaw?
Gavvy Cravath: baseball player or Roy Rogers' sidekick?
Creepy Crespi: baseball player or horror movie host?
Ensign Cottrell: baseball player or WWII Medal of Honor winner?
Flame Delhi: baseball player or exotic dancer?
Wheezer Dell: baseball player or vaudeville performer?
Pickles Dillhoefer: baseball player or fight manager?
Ferris Fain: baseball player or candy maker?
Rags Faircloth: baseball player or clown?
Dot Fulghum: baseball player or lady baseball player?
Barbaro Garbey: baseball player or pirate?
Tinsley Ginn: baseball player or blues guitarist?
Jot Goar: baseball player or Star Trek alien?
Mauro Gozzo: baseball player or mobster?
Beiker Graterol: baseball player or TV chef?
Topsy Hartsel: baseball player or Las Vegas comic?
Chicken Hawks: baseball player or flock of raptors?
Drungo Hazewood: baseball player or jazz musician?
Smead Jolley: baseball player or Jolly Time popcorn tycoon?
Addie Joss: baseball player or cartoonist?
Malachi Kittridge: baseball player or cricket player?
Coco Laboy: baseball player or torch singer?
Braden Looper: baseball player or golfer?
Memo Luna: baseball player or Fidel Castro's caddy?
Dolf Luque: baseball player or Swedish weightlifter?
Duster Mails: baseball player or demolition derby champion?
Bid McPhee: baseball player or bookie?
Mox McQuery: baseball player or crime writer?
Fenton Mole: baseball player or spy?
Prince Oana: baseball player or Hawaiian royalty?
Bots Nekola: baseball player or anagram for "ankle boots?"
Pretzel Pezzullo and Squiz Pillion: baseball players or midget wrestlers?
Jennings Poindexter: baseball player or banker?
Arquimedez Pozo: baseball player or Greek scientist?
Nikco Riesgo: baseball player or cab driver?
Billy Jo Robidoux: baseball player or country singer?
Muddy Ruel: baseball player or blues singer?
Pi Schwert: baseball player or mathematician?
Hosea Siner: baseball player or preacher?
Heathcliff Slocumb: baseball player or literature professor?
Scipio Spinks: baseball player or boxer?
Snuffy Stirnweiss: baseball player or L'il Abner cartoon character?
Coaker Triplett: baseball player or football player?
Possum Whitted: baseball player or hunting guide?

5 Comments:
Did I miss it? Did you really not include Newt Hunter -- baseball player or herpetologist?
By PDAZ, Jul 12 09 11:30 AM
I am looking, because things don't just stay in my brain...and then jump out, upon request. I think a lot of us will enjoy this!
Thanks, DG
By veronikkamarrz, Jul 12 09 10:57 PM
You know%2C I%27ve been through about 25 of these names...So far ALL are %28were%29 Baseball players%2C and most were under 6 feet tall. Just a trivia bit of my own. Are ANY of them something else%3F Did you toss at least 1 name in%2C that has some other occupation%3F
By veronikkamarrz, Sep 09 09 8:16 PM
Sorry to put you through that, VM. They are ALL baseball players.
By deputygary, Sep 10 09 8:37 PM
Geeze, DG! It was fun, anyhow!
What's with the weird punctuation stuff? Was it something I said?;)
By veronikkamarrz, Sep 11 09 4:51 PM