Kind of a dark tangent concerning Tim Belcher. At some point after the 1993 boating accident that killed Tim Crews and Steve Olin, and injured Bob Ojeda, I got Crews and Belcher. For years, I thought Belcher was dead, only to somewhat recently discover he was alive and presumably well. Good news for him, I guess. I think Belcher had the more memorable name, so I just placed him in the accident and forgot about Crews.
So now that I've brought down the mood with this morbid death talk, I'll see myself out.
Tristain Mckenzie is also a low key fun name as well (probably because I have not seen to many baseball players with the name Tristian) (and yes i know i spelled his name wrong)
It's even a little weirder to me because the only Tristan I've known in real life was a girl. And I know it's traditionally a boy's name, and that sort of thing probably matters less now than it ever has, but I still can't help automatically thinking of it as a girl's name whenever I hear it. Just a weird little quirk of the name for me.
Pretty dang fabulous, Patrick! So many memories unleashed! BTW, the baseball cat with the longest name was Dodgers/A's farmhand, Eric Stuckenschneider. He never made it to the Bigs, so he's not in the record books. I had his card in the '90s. I was into collecting autographs at the time, and of course, sent him one of his. Bless his heart, he actually wrote it all out! He coulda just scrawled an "S" and then a line, and he'd be excused. This isn't mine, but it's a good example: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uB8AAOSwDRpfjaPW/s-l300.jpg
Thought you might enjoy this piece I wrote 6 years ago on Dickie Thon (and his ball-playing kid, Dickie Joe!): https://therunnersports.com/astros-dickie-thon-avoids-84-beaning/ ! I took a stab at postulating out the career Dad Dickie might've had sans beaning.
I wish I could remember more examples of fun-with-names my bro and I had, but inasmuch as our playfulness reaches back into the '60s makes it a farther reach! Anyway, a fun read, no doubt!
Thank you, Brad. I will check out the article on Dickie Thon. Didn't realize his son played. And I can't believe he went by Dickie too! That family seems to be counting on the rest of us to be way more mature than most of us actually are.
Well, maturity schmaturity, I found it far more hilarious to spoonerize names, so he was always Thickie Don to me! Michael Jordan's Bulls teammate? Pottie Skippin. When it got into spoonerizing actors' names was when the hilarity meter started to pin, to wit: Forrest Tucker or Sophie Tucker. I rest my case....maturity intact.🤣
Nathan Adcock. Chien-Ming Wang. Tim Belcher. Jerry Cram. Brooks Pounders. And those are just some mediocre Royals pitchers.
Kind of a dark tangent concerning Tim Belcher. At some point after the 1993 boating accident that killed Tim Crews and Steve Olin, and injured Bob Ojeda, I got Crews and Belcher. For years, I thought Belcher was dead, only to somewhat recently discover he was alive and presumably well. Good news for him, I guess. I think Belcher had the more memorable name, so I just placed him in the accident and forgot about Crews.
So now that I've brought down the mood with this morbid death talk, I'll see myself out.
Tristain Mckenzie is also a low key fun name as well (probably because I have not seen to many baseball players with the name Tristian) (and yes i know i spelled his name wrong)
It's even a little weirder to me because the only Tristan I've known in real life was a girl. And I know it's traditionally a boy's name, and that sort of thing probably matters less now than it ever has, but I still can't help automatically thinking of it as a girl's name whenever I hear it. Just a weird little quirk of the name for me.
Pretty dang fabulous, Patrick! So many memories unleashed! BTW, the baseball cat with the longest name was Dodgers/A's farmhand, Eric Stuckenschneider. He never made it to the Bigs, so he's not in the record books. I had his card in the '90s. I was into collecting autographs at the time, and of course, sent him one of his. Bless his heart, he actually wrote it all out! He coulda just scrawled an "S" and then a line, and he'd be excused. This isn't mine, but it's a good example: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uB8AAOSwDRpfjaPW/s-l300.jpg
Thought you might enjoy this piece I wrote 6 years ago on Dickie Thon (and his ball-playing kid, Dickie Joe!): https://therunnersports.com/astros-dickie-thon-avoids-84-beaning/ ! I took a stab at postulating out the career Dad Dickie might've had sans beaning.
I wish I could remember more examples of fun-with-names my bro and I had, but inasmuch as our playfulness reaches back into the '60s makes it a farther reach! Anyway, a fun read, no doubt!
Thank you, Brad. I will check out the article on Dickie Thon. Didn't realize his son played. And I can't believe he went by Dickie too! That family seems to be counting on the rest of us to be way more mature than most of us actually are.
Well, maturity schmaturity, I found it far more hilarious to spoonerize names, so he was always Thickie Don to me! Michael Jordan's Bulls teammate? Pottie Skippin. When it got into spoonerizing actors' names was when the hilarity meter started to pin, to wit: Forrest Tucker or Sophie Tucker. I rest my case....maturity intact.🤣
Haha. Love it.