What's in a Baseball Name

    For many years, Western Mongolia has been #1 on my wish to visit list...the Altai Mountains, rivers, streams, lakes, huge fish...Olgii, Ulaangom, the massive wide open spaces in between...
    Maybe it'll never happen. Maybe it's too far. Maybe I'm getting too old? But...

    It's World Series time again. And most important and satisfying...the Yankees aren't in it. And also in my wanderinghalfjew mind...Coco Crisp and Milton Bradley on the 2003 Cleveland Indians squad...and earlier MLB players' nicknames and/or [real] names...

Bow Wow Arft, Big Train Asbell, Foots Barfoot, Barney Barnicle, [Matt] Batts, Bananas Benes, Hill Billy Bildilli, Bunny Brief, Gob Buckeye, Slug Burns, Oyster Burns, [Harry] Cheek, Chilly Chelini, [Harry] Chozen, Sniffy Clay, Creepy Crespi, Dingle Croucher, Cooch Cuccinello, Cookie Cuccurullo, Con Daily, Yo-Yo Davalillo, Stinky [Harry] Davis, Snake Deal, Buddy Dear, Dummy Deegan, [John] DeMerit, [Pedro] Dibut, Ugly [John] Dickshot, Monkey Foreman, Whiz Gee, Splinter Gerkin, Pebbly Jack Glasscock, Holy Good, Turkey Gross, Bushy Hart, Chicken Hawks, Pig [Henry] House, Flip Flap Jones, Available Jones, Puddin' Head Jones, Witty [Michael] Jordan, Curly Jungels, Smoke Justis, Wagon Tongue Keister, Happy Kibble, Old Folks Kinder, Noisy Kling, [Elmer] Klumpp, [Clyde] Kluttz, Rubber Krapp, Candy LaChance, Pete LaCock (Peter Marshall's son), Porky Lade, [Peter] Lapan, Buddy Lively (8-13 in the Majors), Smokey Lotz (0-3 overall...smokey too much?), Slim Love, Con Lucid, [Guido] Martini, Buster McCrabb, Buzz McWeeney, Mickey Micelotta (batted .000 in 17 games...didn't hit alotta?), [Orval] Overall, [Clarence] Pickup, Squiz Pillion, Pop Prim, Pooch Puccinelli, Pid Purdy, Mutt Riddle, Roxy Roach, [Edwin] Rommel, Huck Sawyer, Skeeter Scalzi, Cracker Schalk, Biff Schlitzer, [Albert] Schweitzer, Hank Shanks, [Urban] Shocker, Harry Spies, Tuck Stainback, Rocks Start, Lumbago Stimmel, Sponge Storie, Inky Strange, Warhorse [Seymour] Studley, [Guy] Sturdy, Satan Stutz, [Anthony] Suck (batted .156 in 58 games...um, not good), Ducky Swann, Pop Swett (.193 in 37 games), Buck Thrasher, [Austin Ben] Tincup, Dizzy Trout, Fire Trucks, Dixie [R.T.] Upright, Gummy Wall, Piggy Ward, Stormy Weatherly, Legs Weik, Booger Welch, Judge Works, Yam Yaryan, Yank Yerkes, Zip Zabel, Goober Zuber...