Players with Names Matching U.S. State Capitals

Andrew Baggarly was watching the Giants play this past Thursday, and stumbled upon this factoid:

Austin Jackson lines out in his first at-bat of the spring. I actually spent 20 minutes on this, and could not find another MLB player whose name is two state capitals.

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) March 1, 2018

. . . and then Jayson Stark invoked my name:

I feel like @dianagram looked into something similar last year, when Dallas pitched against Austin in Houston! https://t.co/wUYUM7XakL

— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) March 2, 2018

And yes I did look into something similar, but let’s stick to Andrew’s original query. Austin Jackson is indeed the only player whose name is two state capitals. Here are the names in MLB history with a first and/or last name that is also a U.S. State Capital.

There are 95 players (93 total names, with 2 duplicates) . . .