Those crazy, wacky baseball names

Major League Baseball season is upon us and every year at this time, I check the box scores daily and am simply amazed at some of the great names there are in baseball. You won't find players with names like these in the NFL or the NBA or the SHCL for that matter. (That's the Saracens Hertsfordshire Cricket League, in case you didn't know.)

I have prepared lists like the one below before and emailed them to friends so, if you've seen these before, bear with me. I just had to get this out of my system one more time.

The OFFICIAL LIST of GREAT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL NAMES:

The Andruw Jones Creative Spelling Team:

Jhonny Peralta
Chone Figgins
Torii Hunter
Kelvim Escobar
Laynce Nix
Wily Mo Pena
Dmitri Young
Huston Street
Cla C. Meredith


The Vladimir Guerrero Mixed Ethnicity Team:

Bronson Arroyo
Hanley Ramirez
Esteban German
Khalil Greene
Travis Ishikawa
Joaquin Benoit
Esteban Yan
Fernando Rodney
Sergio Mitre
Johan Santana
Juan Pierre
Wilson Valdez
Orlando Hudson

The Cosa Nostra Team:

The Sopranos/New Jersey family:

Rocco Baldelli
Marco Scutarro
Craig Biggio
Tony Graffanino
Sal Fasano
Mike Piazza
Nick Punto
Lenny DiNardo

The Sacramoni/New York family:

Mike Napoli
Carl Pavano
Doug Mirabelli
Chris Ianetta
Frank Catalanatto
David Dellucci
Barry Zito
Jason Giambi

The Troy Percival Light in the Spikes (?) Team:

Ted Lilly
Royce Clayton
Nick Swisher
Lyle Overbay
Mark Teahen
Coco Crisp
Chase Utley
Jake Peavy
Braden Looper
Kyle Farnsworth
Lance Cormier
Shea Hillenbrand
Heath Bell
LaTroy Hawkins
Jordan Tata
Jimmy Gobble
Joey Devine
Jon Garland

L'équipe Française:

Ben Broussard
Jeff Francoeur
Adam LaRoche
Justin Morneau
Danny Ardoin
André Ethier
Ryan Theriot

The Veddy, Veddy British Team:

Marcus Thames
Josh Bard
Adam Wainwright
Jason Marquis
B.J. Upton
Ian Kinsler
Jeff Kent
Prince Fielder
Ian Snell
Marcus Giles
Lastings Milledge
Gary Sheffield
Curt Schilling

The Separated at Birth (By a Few Letters) Team:

Gustavo Chacin & Shawn Chacon
Vinny Castilla & Luis Castillo
Bubba Crosby & Bobby Crosby
Joe Borowski & Dave Borkowski
Miguel Tejada & Robinson Tejeda

The "Huh?" Team:

Yuniesky Betancourt
Dioner Navarro
Yorvit Torrealba
Maicer Yzturis
Sendy Rleal
Ambiorix Burgos
Melky Cabrera
Nook Logan
Boof Bonser

The Great Outdoors Wildlife Team:

Tim Salmon
John Buck
Travis Buck
Shawn Camp
Paul Byrd
Mike Lamb
Mike Gosling
Kerry Wood
Brandon Duckworth
Randy Wolf
Sean Henn
Dan Haren
Dave Bush

The "I Don't Know Where to Put These Names" Team:

Wandy Rodriguez
Wiki Gonzalez
Placido Polanco
Levale Speigner
J.J. Putz
Angel Pagan (again I ask, can a person be an angel and a pagan at the same time?)
Adam Hyzdu
Vinnie Chulk
Trot Nixon
Dan Uggla
Chris Bootcheck
Runelvys Fernandez
Yhency Brazoban
Terrmel Sledge

So there you have it. As always, great names of some truly fine citizens (shameless Moby Grape reference) who ply their trade in America's pastime. And, as always, this list has been compiled under the watchful gaze of the law firm of Mientkiewicz, Ensberg, Schoeneweis, Lieberthal & Inge with an assist from the crack CPA firm of Bloomquist, Eckstein, Isringhausen, Tulowitzki & Blum. My thanks to all for their continued assistance.