Gus Bell/Wally Post/Wally Moon...'50s '60's guys.
Top-notch star-quality baseballers too. All famous for being on the Misakman
All-NOUN team too. (See Misakman's All-Time Funny "Themed" Baseball Teams section).
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Jack Snow/Jim Kiick/Jim Otto/Ron Mix...We see that the NFL also had a
decidedly Pro-MonoSyllabicism Movement bent back in the 70's.
Jim Pagliaroni/Joe Pignatano/Don Pavletich...All 60's backup catchers no
less! Sometimes I mix up Eddie Pellagrinini the 40's-50's infielder with them too.
A.J. Burnett/Josh Beckett/John Burkett...They're all pitchers. All
successful starters to boot!
Michael Barrett/Gary Bennett...Both catchers and mostly Natl. League careers too. It's
easy to foul them up with the pitchers just mentioned above too. What a
mess.
Darren Daulton/Darrin Fletcher/Damian Jackson/Damion Easley...The Baseball
Gods are so cruel! They must be testing us.
Orlando Cabrera/Miguel Cabrera/Melky Cabrera/Daniel
Cabrera...There are even more guys out there with the same
last name but these are the main guys.
Jolbert is one of these guy's brother too!
Mackey Sasser/Mickey Hatcher...I remember them both being kinda flaky
baseball players too.
Jose Cardenal/Chico Cardenas/Leo Cardenas...Trick one. Chico changed his
name to Leo without informing me. His pre '70 Baseball Cards said Chico. I
guess he felt 'Chico' was so... '60s. After all nobody wants to hang out
with an Un-Chic-Chico.
Pedro Ramos/Ruben Gomez/Phil Ortega...In addition to the obvious Latin name
connection, they all would have similar losing seasons in the same era ('50s
and/or'60s) and go on to sport those sub-.500 career W-L records. The first
two were kinda infamous too.
It's easy to forget who's who sometimes but Ramos was the one who gave up
some mammoth moonshots to Mantle. Gomez was in famous scuffles for beaning/hitting guys. Ortega is familiar to baseball triviots for being in the same trade that also brought big Frank Howard from the Dodgers to the Senators.
Rey Ordonez/Edgardo Alfonso/Alfonso
Soriano...Excellent Latin-born infielders all. The names are only kinda
similar. I think it's more because the 1st two guys were both on the same NY
Mets teams.
I know Rey was the SS and Ed the 3B but it's not instantaneous. I gotta
break it down first.
Luke Easter/Vic Power...50's 60's Big Hulking Sluggers. Vic played
into the mid '60s. Luke was a real unsung hero, one of the forgotten
pioneers breaking the A.L. color barrier. It was a bummer when he got shot
by bank robbers in a holdup years later.
Vic was a notorious hotdog around 1st base. A lotta fun.
George Altman/Willie Kirkland...'60s unsung black sluggers sort of in the Fred McGriff/Cecil Cooper mold. Irrevocably linked in my mind since they both also had
career years with almost 100 RBI seasons in the same year,1961. Altman had 96 for the Cubs and
Kirkland 95 for the Indians after which they both quickly proceeded to fall off the map. Sorta like Mike Young/Franklin Stubbs/Sam Horn/Eric Anthony etc. in more modern times. They all
fizzled out fast too after having a yr or two where they hit mucho homers.
