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john/z28jd 18 baseball players were named after George Washington but none have played since 1956....is he starting to lose his luster?
8 players are named after Thomas Jefferson and just 3 after Abraham Lincoln...none after William Taft but 2 got stuck with the worst president ever,Franklin Pierce. Amazingly only one player got stuck with the name "John Quincy Adams" but that was by choice. Charles E Strick changed his name on his own to John Quincy Adams Strick....very odd since there is no way he knew him personally and he wasnt alive while JQ was pres. Maybe he changed it to try and break his career long slump as a .164 hitter.
On a side note, I have planned for many years now to name my first born "Ulysses S Grant Hurricane" whether it was a boy or a girl but only recently have i stopped using that as my opening pickup line