View Full Version : Nobodies who should have been great based on their names
Peter_Spaeth
11-02-2015, 07:34 PM
As long as we are on topics like this. Here is my first pick -- Duke Carmel -- with a name like that he should have been a superstar.
PolarBear
11-02-2015, 08:30 PM
Carl Spongberg
alfredoleal2001
11-02-2015, 10:03 PM
Kirk Dressendorfer, Tood Van Poppel, Ben Grieve....... For some reason they were all A`s
MattyC
11-02-2015, 10:10 PM
http://i741.photobucket.com/albums/xx58/mattianc/razor_shines_autograph_zpskoezkbs8.jpg
Laxcat
11-02-2015, 11:02 PM
Wonderful Terrific Monds
jasonc
11-03-2015, 08:08 AM
Vern Ruhle /RULE/
SMPEP
11-03-2015, 08:17 AM
Ten Million
Bestdj777
11-03-2015, 08:33 AM
I wish there was more information out there about some of these players. I'd love to read about their post career lives, etc., and what happened to those that did not make a career out of baseball. Ten Million has to be my favorite. Reminds me of that football player (Ocho Cinco?) or whatever.
Peter_Spaeth
11-03-2015, 08:43 AM
This looks to me like a should have been superstar.
alfredoleal2001
11-03-2015, 08:58 AM
Bubbles Hargrave
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hargrbu01.shtml
Pinky Hargrave
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hargrpi01.shtml
bn2cardz
11-03-2015, 09:22 AM
Tony Gwynn...
Pete Rose...
Eddie Collins...
Ed Walsh...
Jr
All those names associated with greatness, yet the Juniors couldn't live up to their father's legacies.
ALR-bishop
11-03-2015, 10:03 AM
In no particular order
Coot Veal
Cot Deal
Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskhahoma McLish
Tom Aaron
1952boyntoncollector
11-03-2015, 11:47 AM
Speed Walker. only played in 2 games in 1923 ZERO stolen bases....
PolarBear
11-03-2015, 11:48 AM
He's a HOFer but the best baseball name ever is Mordecai Peter Centennial Three Finger Brown, aka Miner.
Volod
11-03-2015, 03:34 PM
Still cracks me up...sixty some years later.
begsu1013
11-03-2015, 07:44 PM
world b. free
Collectorsince62
11-03-2015, 07:48 PM
Champ Summers
STL1944
11-03-2015, 08:12 PM
I am all about Choo Choo Coleman
Duluth Eskimo
11-03-2015, 08:29 PM
Need I say more
Duluth Eskimo
11-03-2015, 08:30 PM
Or?
Butch7999
11-03-2015, 08:37 PM
Pre-war, sorry, not post-war, but mainly on-topic:
were any cards (major or minor league) ever made for either
Astyanax Douglass (two demitasse cups of coffee with the 1920s Reds) or
Klondike Douglass (mostly fin-de-siecle Phillies)?
Regardless, ya gotta love those names...
begsu1013
11-03-2015, 09:00 PM
i believe there was a "fair hooker" as well....
Auto racing had;
Lake Speed and Scott Speed
stlcardsfan
11-04-2015, 11:09 AM
Auto racing had;
Lake Speed and Scott Speed
Don't forget Dick Trickle. And his son Cole Trickle who raced in Days of Thunder.:)
tschock
11-04-2015, 11:34 AM
Matt Batts!
To which we respond, "Of course he does!"
D. Bergin
11-04-2015, 11:49 AM
When I was growing up as a Yankee fan, and they played the Red Sox, me and my dad would always get excited when the Sox went to the bullpen and they brought in Mark Clear.
We'd look at each other and we'd yell at the top of our lungs "Here comes Mark Clear the bases".
My mom thought we were crazy.
<img src="http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/86/86-748Fr.jpg">
SMPEP
11-04-2015, 01:56 PM
You know what they say .... Mom's always right. :p
Peter_Spaeth
11-04-2015, 02:10 PM
Another guy whose name and appearance suggest superstar not commoner to me.
begsu1013
11-04-2015, 07:41 PM
picabo street
and:
http://caimages.collectors.com/psaimages/26029/10517153/dickshot.jpg
/\ from my home town; Waukegan Illinois. He owned a pool hall in town.
Good baseball names;
Homer Bailey
Bob Walk
David W
11-05-2015, 07:49 AM
Wrong sport for this guy....
His name has WWE written all over it.
jason.1969
11-05-2015, 08:04 AM
I remember when I was a kid opening packs in 1978...I didn't really know who all the guys were beyond Dodgers and the really big superstars like Reggie and Carew. So when I got this guy's card, I just assumed he was big time--
210788
A few other HOF-calibre names are Shooty Babbitt, Warren Cromartie, and Max Venable.
And for the Dick Pole/Dick Trickle crowd, don't forget Randy Johnson (aka "The Big Unit"), Woody Held, and Randy Ready.
D. Bergin
11-05-2015, 11:56 AM
When I was a little kid, I was a big Flintstones fan. I thought Jay Johnstone was the coolest most alpha name ever. So much so, when the Yankees traded for him in 1978, he instantly became one of my favorite players for about 3 weeks, until I realized he just wasn't very good.
<img src="http://mlblogsbruce.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/johnstone2.jpg">