This morning’s “Effectively Wild” Baseball Prospectus podcast had Sam Miller recalling that Chris Withrow‘s write-up in the BP Annual mentioned that he’s the only Major Leaguer with the word “throw” in his name.
This caused us to wonder what other players had baseball terms secreted within their names. With the Lahman Baseball Database supplying the names, here are the players with at least one of the following terms in their name: hit, run, throw, single, triple, homer, bunt, walk, bat, swing, out, ball, strike, inning. Note: the term can be split across first and last names.
There is ONE player with two terms (OUT, HIT) in his name:
Taylor Douthit