It is also interesting to me when the pronunciation changes after the player is established. Twins 1b and MVP Justin Morneau played half of his career or more with the name accented on the second syllable, then came out and made it clear that he and his family pronounce it with the first syllable accented. So how would you pronounce the name on his rookie card? 
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Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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