Nobodies who should have been great based on their names

[Peter_Spaeth]

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]

Carl Spongberg

[alfredoleal2001]

Kirk Dressendorfer, Tood Van Poppel, Ben Grieve....... For some reason they were all A`s

[MattyC]

[Laxcat]

Wonderful Terrific Monds

[jasonc]

Vern Ruhle /RULE/

[SMPEP]

Ten Million

[Bestdj777]

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]

This looks to me like a should have been superstar.

[alfredoleal2001]

Bubbles Hargrave

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...argrbu01.shtml

Pinky Hargrave

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...argrpi01.shtml

[bn2cardz]

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]

In no particular order

Coot Veal
Cot Deal
Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskhahoma McLish
Tom Aaron

[1952boyntoncollector]

Speed Walker. only played in 2 games in 1923 ZERO stolen bases....

[PolarBear]

He's a HOFer but the best baseball name ever is Mordecai Peter Centennial Three Finger Brown, aka Miner.

[Volod]

Still cracks me up...sixty some years later.

[begsu1013]

world b. free

[Collectorsince62]

Champ Summers

[STL1944]

I am all about Choo Choo Coleman

[Duluth Eskimo]

Need I say more

[Duluth Eskimo]

Or?

[Butch7999]

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]

i believe there was a "fair hooker" as well....

[RTK]

Auto racing had;

Lake Speed and Scott Speed

[stlcardsfan]

Originally Posted by RTK

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]

Matt Batts!
To which we respond, "Of course he does!"

[D. Bergin]

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.

[SMPEP]

You know what they say .... Mom's always right.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Another guy whose name and appearance suggest superstar not commoner to me.

[begsu1013]

picabo street

and:

[RTK]

/\ from my home town; Waukegan Illinois. He owned a pool hall in town.

Good baseball names;

Homer Bailey
Bob Walk

[David W]

Wrong sport for this guy....

His name has WWE written all over it.

[jason.1969]

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--

champ.jpg

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]

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.