Let Us Now Praise the Mookies and Gookies and Slaughters

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Inspired by Boof Bonser, what are your top baseball names?

Mine:

Herb Score (!)
Bake McBride (!!)
Vida Blue
Manny Mota
Chet Lemon
Tim Spooneybarger
Will Ohman As a Cub = "Oh maaan"/bad omen
Urban Shocker (born Urbain Jacques Shockcor)
Pete LaCock

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Heathcliff Slocumb
Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 5 December 2003 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Razor Shines
Sal "The Barber" Maglie
Jose "Player to be Named Later" Uribe
Ugueth Urbina
Sixto Lezcano
Candy Maldonado
Von Hayes

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Daryl Strawberry
German Rivera
Joachim Andujar
Hank Blaylock
Wally Moon
Ed Ott
Dizzy Dean
Daffy Dean
Dan Quisenberry
Mario Mendoza (known for "The Mendoza Line")

― earlnash, Friday, 5 December 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

BOOG POWELL!

― earlnash, Friday, 5 December 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

old skool:

Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown
Napoleon Lajoie
Fred Merkle('s Boner)
Honus Wagner

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 5 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

In lieu of dear departed Boof, say hello to the Giants' new pitching prospect, Merkin Valdez!

― Leee Iacocca (Leee), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Rollie Fingers?

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Thursday, 11 December 2003 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oil Can Boyd!

When I was a kid, I wanted him to be the greatest player who ever lived, because his name was just so great. OIL. CAN. BOYYYYDDD!

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 December 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Todd Van Poppel!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

William Van Landingham!

― Leee Marvin (Leee), Friday, 19 December 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Terrmel Sledge

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Chone Figgins

(Full Name: Desmond DeChone Figgins)

― mattbot (mattbot), Sunday, 16 May 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Dick Pole

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Sunday, 16 May 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Rusty Kuntz
Jim Walewander

― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 16 May 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

mattbott or anyone: how is the name "chone" pronounced? like it looks or like "shawn"?

― j.q higgins, Sunday, 16 May 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

pumpsie green
win remmerswaal (great name for a pitcher. he was dutch and disappeared from the bosox in the early '80's. he went back to europe after the season and didn't show up the next, they were never able to track him down, allegedly)
john henry johnson (if for no other reason than his name is a double phallic)

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Non-baseball entry: Dick Trickle

― boldbury (boldbury), Monday, 17 May 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Perusing an article on some Giants prospects, a couple gems:

Spider Martin
Jon Coutlangus

Apparently, John P. Bonser officially changed his name to Boof.

And a Braves prospect: Jarrod Saltalamachira

― vleeetrmx21 (Leee), Friday, 11 June 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Stubby Clapp!

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 11 June 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Coco Crisp!

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 11 June 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Firpo Marberry, but I was so disappointed to find that he was nicknamed after the '20s boxer named Firpo.

In the '70 Montreal briefly had an outfielder, Bombo Rivera. And a semi-regular catcher, John Boccabella.

more catchers:

Biff Pocoroba
Choo Choo Coleman
Duffy Dyer

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Nook Logan
Bartolome Fortunato

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 23 August 2004 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Gookie Dawkins

― mattbot (mattbot), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Bugs Raymond

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago)

With a single and a laserbeam double against future Hall-of-Famer Greg Maddux, I was set to welcome Terrmel Sledge to the page, but I see that gygax beat me to it. kicks dirtclod

Great recent adds:

Biff Pocoroba
(De)Chone Figgins
Dick Pole
Boog Powell
Gookie Dawkins
Rusty Kuntz (certainly Top 10)

Something tells me Stubby Clapp and Jon Coutlangus have spent some time together . . . rimshot.

On a semi-related baseball note, I recently sat in the new-this-year Dugout Box seats right behind home plate at Wrigley, priced at $250 per. I "won" them in the lottery (IPO). The Cubs were playing the Pirates and before the game, Rusty Kuntz was playing catch with Craig Wilson, who skied one over Rusty's head. The ball hit the wall right in front of us, and as Rusty came to retrieve it, he saw my daughter (age 12) and asked her something like, "Are these seats as good as they look?" And my daughter answered in the affirmative of course and blushed a bit and he smiled and it was practically a "precious baseball moment . . ." As he turned and walked away, my daughter squinted and eyed his jersey and asked, "Who was that?"

And there was a long pause even before I started trying to remember if that u is an "oo" or an "uhh." I went, finally, with the former.

Maddux is great tonight.

― gusbot (eternal_fields), Monday, 30 August 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago)

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