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04-12-2015, 12:49 PM
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OT: Unique baseball names
Put on your baseball thinking caps!
I believe that Xander Bogaerts and Eppa Rixey hold a non-statistical rarefied position in the MLB world. While players like Waite Hoyt have a unique first name, from what I can tell, Xander and Eppa have both unique first and last names What other players that played MLB have had both unique first and last names? Given names only. Nicknames don't count.  I'm sure there are some obvious ones I've missed, so let's find out.  I've gone through the names and here is the updated list: Tier 1 - Totally unique given first name and last name (neither exist): Eppa Rixey (HOF) Xander Bogaerts Lerrin Lagrow Jurickson Profar Arquimedez Pozo Ugueth Urtain Urbina (the trifecta... tip 'o the cap to Frank) Kosuke Fukudome Daisuke Matsuzaka Masanori Murakami Quinton McCracken Quincy Trouppe (totally surprised that there was no other Quincy) Rik Aalbert Blyleven (no Rik, but a Rikkert Faneyte) Yoenis Céspedes Rougned Odor Shin-Soo Choo Kenshin Kawakami Werner "Babe" Birrer Edinson Volquez Ledell "Cannon Ball" Titcomb Wonderful Terrific Monds III Sebastian "Sibby" Sisti (surprised no other Sebastians) Ender Inciarte Shawon Dunston Rawlins "Rawly" Eastwick Debs Garms Hobart "Hobie" Landrith Vada Pinson Carey Selph Scipio Spinks Allyn Stout So Taguchi Kolten Wong Sugar Ray Marimon Lastings Milledge Orel Hershiser Hideo Nomo Tier 2 - The Killebrew rule (unique first/last name position, meaning no other MLB with Harmon as a first name or Killebrew as a last name, though first could be last or last could be first) Harmon Killebrew (HOF) (Terry Harmon) Winford Ansley Kellum (Jim Winford) Ferris Fain (Bob Ferris) Miller Huggins (Killebrew rule, lots of Millers) Gibson Alba Mays Copeland Ennis "Rebel" Oakes Freeman "Ossee" Shreckengost Questionable, in that the player went by that name their career even though it wasn't their given name (this gets into nickname territory though) Nomar Garciaparra (given name as Anthony Nomar) Kila Ka'aihue (given name as Micah Kila, and a few Micahs) Urban Shocker (Urban Clarence "Red" Faber and Urban John "Johnny" Hodapp) No Dice-K, try again Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp (Joe Crisp) Arismendy Alcántara (Israel Alcántara) Phillip Bedgood (a few Phillips) Garland Buckeye (Garland "Jake" Stahl and a few others) Fabian Gaffke (Fabian Kowalik) Blas Monaco (Blas Minor) Rance Mulliniks (Rance Pless that played for KC in '56 and Mulliniks given name was Steven Rance) Garth Iorg (Dane Iorg, Garth Mann) Ten Million (Minor Leaguer, and also a Douglas and Robert, both Minor Leaguers as well) Rusty Kuntz (given name is Russell, and Rusty Staub, given name Daniel) Vida Rochelle Blue (Luzerne Blue) Sixto Lezcano (Carlos Lezcano) Joaquin Andujar (Joaquin Benoit) Carmen Fanzone (Carmen Hill, among others) Chicken Hawks (given name Nelson, and if not, then there was a Chicken Wolf) Benny Agbayani (given name Benny, but so was Benny Joe Edelen) Van Lingle Mungo (Van Kelly, Van Snider) Woodson "Woodie" Held (Melvin Held) Heathcliff Slocumb (given name listed as Heath, and there are a few others) Chalmer "Bill" Cissell (sorry, Chalmer "Lum" Harris) Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish (Calvin Ripken, Calvin Eldred, Calvin "Pokey" Reese, and a few other "Cals", but one of the coolest and longest names though) Last edited by tschock; 04-16-2015 at 06:31 PM. Reason: Added names 
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04-12-2015, 12:57 PM
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Lerrin Lagrow?
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04-12-2015, 01:42 PM
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Why not three names?
The winner
Ugueth Urtain Urbina
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04-12-2015, 01:55 PM
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04-13-2015, 05:26 PM
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Take 2...
Since I was unsuccessful at my first try, this time I'll offer up Chalmer (Bill) Cissell.
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04-13-2015, 07:41 PM
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What about Ferris Fain?
Drew
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04-14-2015, 11:24 AM
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