One player, different names
 

Hank Aaron is of course Henry Aaron on a couple of issues.
Roberto Clemente was sometimes Roberto more often Bob.
Dick Allen also was Richie Allen, and at least two years he was Rich Allen. That's amazing, THREE names.

Who else?

Pete Appleton (1939-40 Play Ball) is Pete Jablonowski for 1933 Goudey.


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How about Babe and George Ruth.

Joey and Albert Belle

George/Jorge Bell.

Johnny Bench was John Bench at least on his Partridge Meats quasi rookie.

The obvious one David Arias David Ortiz.

Also I think Mo Vaughn was also Maurice Vaughn.

Tom and Tommy Herr.

Eric or Harry Rasmussen

324. Skewedonyms
The inconsistent spellings of certain players’ names (Jimmie/Jimmy Foxx, Lew/Lou Burdette, Satchel/Satchell Paige and Dick/Richie Allen, e.g.) used by the card companies.

Mike Stanton became Giancarlo.
Lefty and Robert Grove.

Ty Cobb and Ty Cob

Henry, Hank and Bow-Wow Arftt...sorry, couldn't resist.

Orestes and "Minnie" Minoso

Speaking of new HOFers, Pedro Oliva on his RC, right? And 65 Topps Jim Katt.

Turk/Dick Farrell

Mike

Ed Spiezio/Wayne Spiezio, Moe Drabowsky/Mike Drabowsky, Zoilo Versailles/Zorro Versailles, Clarence Gaston/Cito Gaston.

Eddie Soloman/Buddy Soloman/B.J. Soloman of the Braves/Dodgers of the 70's

SF fans will know...
 

Jeffrey "Don't ever call me Jeff" Leonard.

But he can never ditch the greatest nickname in all of sports...

"Penitentiary Face"

1984 AL MVP & Cy Young Winner
 

Toward the end of his career, Willie Hernandez wanted to be addressed by his birthname, Guillermo Hernandez.

His 1989 & 1990 cards reflect this.

James Junior Jim Gilliam

Dick Allen has company, that's awesome.

Zach, Zack, Zachary, Zachariah Wheat

He was listed as either Zach and Zack on most issues. Listed as Zachary on the back of CJs. Listed as Zachariah on his HoF postcard if not elsewhere.

Jimmy - Jimmie - Foxx - Fox

There's one that has both first AND last names with different spellings.

More recently, BJ Upton / Melvin Upton Jr.

Not to be confused with his brother Justin, of course.

Mo is a great guy. Met him at a company picnic we had for lunch one day when he just happened to be coming in to meet one of my former colleague's at a firm I used to work at. For a short time we were doing his accounting and tax work for his company, Mo Vaughn Trucking, out of Solon, Ohio I believe.

Sandy Koufax aka Sanford Koufax

Dennis Boyd / Oil Can Boyd

If nicknames count, Topps used "Doc" Gooden and "Rock" Raines for a couple years.

Mudcat Grant/Jim Grant, Frank Herrera/Pancho Herrera, Ferguson Jenkins/Fergie Jenkins.

Roberto Bob Bobby Avila. !!!!!!!!!!

Jerry Grote/Gerald Grote, Joel Horlen/Joe Horlen, Chico Cardenas/Leo Cardenas, Tug McGraw/Frank McGraw*, Sparky Lyle/Al Lyle*.
*Milton Bradley cards

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Fausto Carmona
 

And Roberto Hernandez. Cleveland fans know this one!

Angyale

Boog Powell/John Powell, Mike Cuellar/Mike Cueller, Vern Law/Vernon Law, Nellie Fox/Nelson Fox, Dutch Leonard/Emil Leonard, Phil Cavarretta/Phil Cavaretta, Chico Carrasquel/Alfonso Carrasquel, Roy Face/Elroy Face, Cuno Barragan/Cuno Barragon, Smoky Burgess/Forrest Burgess, Granny Hamner/Granville Hamner.

Have we mentioned Lou and Henry Gehrig?

Most are just nicknames.

But some...
From a bit of googling
Pete Appleton, formerly Pete Jablonowski


Then there's extending into other sports

World B. Free / Lloyd Bernard Free
Ron Artest / Metta World Peace / Metta Sandiford-Artest

To state the obvious, Lew Alcindor --> Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think a few other NBA players have adopted Islamic names, right? There was a guy in the early '90s if I recall.

woot! I get to add one

Ellie / Elrod Hendricks

Elrod is a much cooler baseball name. IMHO

Chris Jackson/Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Another Basketball is Keith Wilkes/Jamaal Wilkes. A couple of Football, Bobby Moore/Ahmad Rashad, Sharmon Shah/Karim Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar later sued him and he changed it to Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar.

The 'incorrect' Chad Ochocinco. (But I maintain that it does say 8 and 5, so it's fine.)

James Edward Runnels/Pete Runnels, James Barton Vernon/Mickey Vernon, Stanley Raymond Harris/Bucky Harris, & Edgar Charles Rice/Sam Rice.

Walt Hazzard became Mahdi Abdul Rahman.
And of course, in boxing, I don't even need to say it.

Al Jackson/Alvin Jackson (1966 Topps). Kudos to the poster of Elrod Hendricks/Ellie Hendricks, I had that one in my head yesterday morning and then forgot it.

On his '69 Topps card he is referred to as Rod Hendricks

Eddie Mathews
 

He's Ed Mathews on his Topps issues but the 53 Bowman I have lists him as Eddie Mathews.

On at least one fabulous card, they just call him Rocket.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned SF Giants shortstop, the late Jose Uribe, who played under the name Jose Gonzalez at the beginning of his career (due to variations in Spanish nomenclature).

The first time he came up to bat against the Mets, after announcing his name change, Mets announcer Tim McCarver said, "he's literally the player to be named later."

Thats also how the entire Rojas family became the Alous. At least until the recently fired Mets manager reclaimed it.

One I forgot and then re-remembered, Freddie Patek/Fred Patek.

Don't think it's been mentioned, but Denny and Dennis Martinez? Or how about Leo/Chico Cardenas?

How about Frank Thomas/Anonymous? Sorry - it's still early and I'm a bit punchy from lack of coffee....

Bucky Dent picked up a new middle name, but it's only regional.....:D

If not mentioned, Rich Gossage became Goose. Did any Jim Hunter cards actually say Catfish on front?

I looked for both a few days ago and couldn’t find any but several of Hunter’s cards have Jim “Catfish” Hunter as the facsimile signature.

Right around 1988, Dwight Gooden made it known that he wanted to be referred to as "Doc".

What about Pancho Herrer? Or All Hrabosky? :D

[SFX: icy cold silence]

[me: taking the walk of shame as I leave the room]

He shares it with Johnny Lindell and Aaron Boone. :D

How about two names on the same card?

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Forget about different names, Runnels had a card with a different picture (teammate Don Johnson).

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Tons of examples and yet Dick Pole was always Dick Pole.
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I have a few uncut sheets of '78 Topps on the walls of my home office. My daughter and her college friends were in there one night playing pool, glanced at one of the sheets, and saw Dick Pole's card...'nuff said? Poor guy.

I can't find any cards, but there was a minor leaguer who signed his name "Jose A. Pujols". When he got to the big leagues he started signing A. Pujols. He goes by Albert now.

I used to work with a guy named Richard Head. I wonder what his parents were thinking.

They weren't using their heads.

Sorry.

Whatever you think of his parents, it's pretty clear the guy came out ahead.

Tom Seaver/George Thomas Seaver