Batter's Box Interactive Magazine - News of the Weird: A Salty Cat

Oddities and Quirks ...
Last night, former Jay Frank Catalanotto and his current Ranger teammate Jarrod Saltalamacchia had back-to-back RBI at-bats for Texas. It was a history-making event (we think) as Salty has the longest last/family name in major league history (14 letters -- sorry, William "Unlucky 13" Van Landingham) while Cat, with 11 letters in his own last/family name, ain't far behind that.

So ... two at-bats, 25 combined letters in the last names, two RBI. What other weird things are going on in the major leagues these days?

Posted by Mick Doherty on Monday, June 23 2008 @ 12:25 PM EDT.

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Mick Doherty - Monday, June 23 2008 @ 12:33 PM EDT (#187900) #

To be perfectly fair, the two names actually only use 10 letters -- just some of them are used lots of times (like the "a.") Oh, but why couldn't one of them have his name be one letter longer -- 26 is such a nice alphabetic number!

Alex0888 - Monday, June 23 2008 @ 06:03 PM EDT (#187926) #

Those Italians should learn to keep their names short.

Rob - Monday, June 23 2008 @ 07:31 PM EDT (#187931) #

Other weird stuff?

Flags will be distorted into cap logos.

Jose Vidro isn't the only one not getting on base in Seattle.

There's a guy named Bonesteele pitching in the CWS, hopefully successfully so he will get drafted and make the majors and several Hall of Names teams.

Just off the top of my RSS reader...

Rob - Monday, June 23 2008 @ 08:50 PM EDT (#187938) #

Oh, and King Felix hit a grand slam. Off Johan Santana. That qualifies.

Mike Green - Monday, June 23 2008 @ 08:56 PM EDT (#187940) #

John Lackey is pitching tonight. Why isn't his nickname "Running Dog"? Memories of Marxism on campus '76. I guess you had to be there.

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