on a lighter note, at this week's Mets home opener, i started talking with Sujan about baseball players and managers named after food. my tangential brain picked up the task today and here's a pretty decent list:
Cookie Rojas, Darryl Strawberry, Mike Lamb, Jim Rice, Bill Bean (not Billy Beane), Chet and Bob and Jim Lemon, Johhny Oates, Zack Wheat, Bobby Wine, Clarence Beers, Sweetbreads Bailey (real name Abraham Lincoln Bailey), Pepper Martin, Ginger Beaumont, Peaches Graham (2 foods in 1), Peanuts Lowrey, Tom Butters, Noodles Hahn, Candy Maldonado, Bake McBride, Tim Crabtree, Dizzy and Steve Trout, Felix Pie (Cubs OF prospect), Tim Salmon, Pork Chop Pough (1995 Eastern League All-Star), Vinegar Bend Mizell, Sugar Cain (really!), David Cone, Chip Hale, Kevin and Randy Bass, Rob Deer, Eddie Bacon, Eddie Mayo, Pickles Dillhoefer.
research aided by Baseball-Reference.com. bonus tidbit: type "sausage" into the Player Search area and Randall Simon's stats come up.
Posted by jamie at April 16, 2004 05:36 PMi guess you're leaving out Coco(a) Crisp?
cocoa crisps - http://vegweb.com/food/sweets/3430.shtml
coco crisp - http://baseball-reference.com/c/crispco01.shtml
Posted by: marc at April 16, 2004 05:54 PMalso Chili Davis
Posted by: jamie at April 16, 2004 08:23 PMThis is fun.
Pie Traynor (manager)
Salty Parker (manager)
Pea Ridge Day(!)
Frank Pears
Robbie Wine
Jay, Less and Lip Pike (hey, if you're including the Bass boys)
Terry Cornutt (ok, maybe a bit of a stretch)
Anyone named Frank
Oil Can Boyd. Cans of beer were called oil cans wherever the hell he grew up. Mars, I think.
Posted by: jake at April 17, 2004 01:08 AMThose big cans of Foster's are often referred to as oil cans.
Posted by: Matt at April 18, 2004 01:51 PMalso:
Cookie Lavagetto
Turkey Stearnes
and sorta,kinda, maybe:
Damon Berryhill
Jim Bruske (brewskie!)
he was from Mississippi. ironically, the government now spends more money on Mars than they do on Mississippi.
Posted by: jamie at April 19, 2004 11:52 AM