How dare they butcher the name of my beloved Dee Strange-Gordon
mysterysackerfice
Wonder if Ray Mancini borrowed his nickname from Beck.
Eggablist
people were naming their kids anything in late 19th/early 20th century
jettasarebadmkay
Pop-Boy Smith’s real name was actually Clarence.
beheemz
Peek – a – boo veach 😂
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AUSTIN BIBENS-DIRKX MENTIONED
kyredemain
That is why his nickname was « Hyphen. »
Kek-Malmstein
Didn’t Dee Gordon not use his hyphenated name until later in his career? Would that still count as being in 2011?
JorSimpson45
^(dee gordon added the “strange-” during the 2020 season)
Basic_Bichette
Best part, his name is the traditional double-barreled type that came about because some poor dude back in 1732 married an heiress.
GuyOnTheMike
Boom-Boom Beck is a classic nickname origin.
He was, uh, not the ace of the staff and his name came from one “boom” coming off the bat and another “boom” of the ball hitting the (usually metal) outfield fence.
One infamous instance saw him being removed from a game in 1934 and instead of giving his manager the ball, he fired it off the right field fence of Philly’s Baker Bowl. A hungover Hack Wilson sprung to action and played the ball back into the infield because, well…you can figure it out
sentry_87
Peek-A-Boo?? That was only a fucking nickname! His family name was Pecabourelli!
StandYourGroundhog
How is that possible
twosl0w
Rangers legend AB-D
desr43
So I have hyphenated last name. Back in the halcyon days of yore, maybe the early days of the Internet, us baseball nerds had to work for random tidbits. I remember reading that we had a prospect that was called up, and when he debuted, he would be the first with a hyphenated last name. « Well I gotta go to that, » I thought. I lived a couple hours north of Seattle at the time, and jumped on Craigslist (further dating this story) and grabbed a ticket. Went to the game, saw his debut, cool shit.
Fast forward many years and I have a baseball-obsessed kid of my own, who, of course, has a hyphenated last name. I find out that the OG Hyphen is doing a baseball camp, so of course we have to go.
While he’s there (and with me in earshot) he tells the story about his major league debut, which I forgot or didn’t notice, that he faced.. Ken Griffey Jr. Long story short(ish), he struck him out. « I think I’m the only player to get boo’d in their major league debut, at home, because everyone there was there to see one thing: Junior hit dingers. »
So I made sure to tell him later… « Hey, I know one person who was there because of you ».
(My kid and him are still friends and work together. RRS is one of the coolest people in all of baseball)
chinabox
Nothing will ever beat the time the Mets had three players on their team with last names that started with a lowercase d.
Lukey_Jangs
sameth1
TIL Simeon Woods Richardson isn’t hyphenated and he just uses two last names.
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nicknames don’t or shouldn’t count
Strnge
How dare they butcher the name of my beloved Dee Strange-Gordon
Wonder if Ray Mancini borrowed his nickname from Beck.
people were naming their kids anything in late 19th/early 20th century
Pop-Boy Smith’s real name was actually Clarence.
Peek – a – boo veach 😂
AUSTIN BIBENS-DIRKX MENTIONED
That is why his nickname was « Hyphen. »
Didn’t Dee Gordon not use his hyphenated name until later in his career? Would that still count as being in 2011?
^(dee gordon added the “strange-” during the 2020 season)
Best part, his name is the traditional double-barreled type that came about because some poor dude back in 1732 married an heiress.
Boom-Boom Beck is a classic nickname origin.
He was, uh, not the ace of the staff and his name came from one “boom” coming off the bat and another “boom” of the ball hitting the (usually metal) outfield fence.
One infamous instance saw him being removed from a game in 1934 and instead of giving his manager the ball, he fired it off the right field fence of Philly’s Baker Bowl. A hungover Hack Wilson sprung to action and played the ball back into the infield because, well…you can figure it out
Peek-A-Boo?? That was only a fucking nickname! His family name was Pecabourelli!
How is that possible
Rangers legend AB-D
So I have hyphenated last name. Back in the halcyon days of yore, maybe the early days of the Internet, us baseball nerds had to work for random tidbits. I remember reading that we had a prospect that was called up, and when he debuted, he would be the first with a hyphenated last name. « Well I gotta go to that, » I thought. I lived a couple hours north of Seattle at the time, and jumped on Craigslist (further dating this story) and grabbed a ticket. Went to the game, saw his debut, cool shit.
Fast forward many years and I have a baseball-obsessed kid of my own, who, of course, has a hyphenated last name. I find out that the OG Hyphen is doing a baseball camp, so of course we have to go.
While he’s there (and with me in earshot) he tells the story about his major league debut, which I forgot or didn’t notice, that he faced.. Ken Griffey Jr. Long story short(ish), he struck him out. « I think I’m the only player to get boo’d in their major league debut, at home, because everyone there was there to see one thing: Junior hit dingers. »
So I made sure to tell him later… « Hey, I know one person who was there because of you ».
(My kid and him are still friends and work together. RRS is one of the coolest people in all of baseball)
Nothing will ever beat the time the Mets had three players on their team with last names that started with a lowercase d.
TIL Simeon Woods Richardson isn’t hyphenated and he just uses two last names.
I’m so glad we are now aware of this