March 15, 2004

GIVE UP SOME TOMAHAWK CHOP:

The All-Onomatopoeic Team (Mikhail Horowitz, Elysian Fields Quarterly)

C Elmer Klumpp
1B Vince Shupe
2B Bobby Knoop
SS Everett Booe
3B Goldie Rapp
OF John Clapp
OF Merlin Kopp
OF John Poff
   
RHP
Eric Plunk
Stan Klopp
   
LHP
Joe Klink
Jung Bong
   
BENCH
Walter Plock
Bobby Clack
   
MGR Johnny Kling

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 15, 2004 8:09 PM
Comments

This has to be the most egregious example of someone with too much time on his hands that I have ever seen.

Posted by: Brandon at March 15, 2004 10:11 PM

Quentin McCracken

Posted by: at March 15, 2004 10:34 PM

What, no Razor Shines or Randy Ready?

Posted by: joe shropshire at March 15, 2004 10:55 PM

What about Brad Clontz?

Posted by: jim hamlen at March 16, 2004 10:04 AM

jim:

One hesitates to ask what activity you engage in that makes a clontz sound.

Posted by: oj at March 16, 2004 10:09 AM

Are there any baseball players who don't have silly names? Or is it required by federal law?

For what it's worth, there's a Swiss footballer playing in England called Bernt Haas.

Painful.

Posted by: Brit at March 16, 2004 10:24 AM

There was also a pitcher in the 1910's named Gene Krapp (his nickname was "Rubber"), and a 19th century infielder named William "Wagon Tongue" Kiester - I'm surprised his nickname wasn't "Big".

Posted by: John Barrett Jr. at March 16, 2004 12:09 PM

When Clontz pitched for the Braves, "clontz" was the sound of the baseball as it struck the scoreboard in right-center field (after being smacked by the bat of whoever hit it), and it didn't really matter who that batter was.

Posted by: jim hamlen at March 16, 2004 1:01 PM
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