Once again, my Twitter followers come up with the idea for a fun post:
“Iannetta” in running for longest player name made of 1-point Scrabble tiles, cc @dianagramhttps://t.co/b6Su4JbZzM
— Batboy Glidden (@Number5TypeCard) April 16, 2016
@Number5TypeCard welp … now I know what I’m writing about next :-0
— Diane Firstman (@dianagram) April 16, 2016
@dianagram Please do! It’s your destiny!
— Batboy Glidden (@Number5TypeCard) April 16, 2016
So, fulfilling my destiny, I took the player file from the Lahman Baseball Database. I then searched for last names longer than eight letters (as in “Iannetta”). I then took those names and searched for any that did NOT have any non-one-point letters (b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,m,p,q,v,w,x,y,z). Here are the results, in length order.
| Player | Length |
| Andy Sonnanstine | 11 |
| Brian Asselstine | 10 |
| Bill Antonello | 9 |
| John Antonelli | 9 |
| Johnny Antonelli | 9 |
| Matt Antonelli | 9 |
| Frank Arellanes | 9 |
| Darrell Einertson | 9 |
| Harry Eisenstat | 9 |
| Bobby Estalella | 9 |
| Bobby Estalella | 9 |
| Don Lassetter | 9 |
| Larry Littleton | 9 |
| Wes Littleton | 9 |
| Brian Ostrosser | 9 |
| Phil Ouellette | 9 |
| Whitey Ritterson | 9 |
| Bill Rollinson | 9 |
| Al Santorini | 9 |
| Herm Starrette | 9 |
| Kennie Steenstra | 9 |
| Mickey Tettleton | 9 |
| Thad Tillotson | 9 |
| Jose Tolentino | 9 |
| Cristobal Torriente | 9 |
| John Tsitouris | 9 |