personal given name teams, redux

[jalbright]

Unfortunately, one of our moderators tried to transfer the thread where I invited everyone to create personal teams based on their given (i.e. not surname) names from history to trivia, and in the process sent the thread into the unexplored vastness of cyberspace. So, we'll try again. Remember, you can't work off anyone else's team, and surnames aren't usable (if we've got a Robinson, they'd be close to winning with that surname alone with Jackie, Frank and Brooks, among others). My given names are Jim and Fred. We can be reasonably liberal in this, since it's all for fun anyway. My team:

c--Jim Sundberg
1b--Jimmie Foxx
2b--Jim Gilliam
3b--Jimmy Collins
ss--Jim Fregosi

of--hard to pick from the following:
Jim O'Rourke
Fred Clarke
Jimmy Wynn
Fred Lynn
Jimmy Ryan
Jim Rice

sp--Jim Palmer
sp--Jim "Catfish" Hunter
sp--Jim Bunning
sp--Jim Kaat

RP--Fred "Firpo" Marberry

While my team probably won't be the best, it wouldn't get embarrassed too often. Have fun!

Jim Albright

[RuthMayBond]

And now that I've changed my name to Robert Edward, no problem

[RuthMayBond]

Here's Kroxquo's "poor" team

SP-Al(lie) Reynolds
SP-Al Spalding
SP-Al Downing
SP-Al Leiter
RP-Al Holland
RP-Al Hrabosky
C-Al Lopez
1B-Keith Hernandez
2B-Al Spalding
3B-Al Rosen
SS-Alan Trammell
LF-Al Simmons
CF-Al Bumbry
OF-Al Kaline
UT-Al Oliver, Al Smith

That ain't half bad

[jalbright]

I like my pitching and first baseman against his, but I'm sure that you could win some pennants with that group.

Jim Albright

[Utter Chaos]

BOB/BOBBY/ROBERT/ROBERTO

SP-Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Bob Lemon, Bob Welch, Bob Forsch
RP-Bob Wickman, Bobby Thigpen, Rob Dibble
C-Bob Boone, Bob Brenley
1B-Bob Watson, Bob Robertson
2B-Roberto Alomar, Bobby Doerr
3B-Bobby Bonilla, Bob Horner
SS-Bobby Wallace, Bobby Crosby
LF-Bobby Abreau, Bobby Thomson
CF-Bobby Bonds, Bobby Murcer
RF-Robeto Clemente, Bob Meusel
UT-Bob Bailey, Bobby Grich, Bobby Richardson, Bobby Avila, Robby Thompson, Bob Knepper, Bob Friend, Bobby Howry, Roberto Hernandez

I think this team would hold their own.

[Utter Chaos]

Originally Posted by Utter Chaos

BOB/BOBBY/ROBERT/ROBERTO

SP-Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Bob Lemon, Bob Welch, Bob Forsch
RP-Bob Wickman, Bobby Thigpen, Rob Dibble
C-Bob Boone, Bob Brenley
1B-Bob Watson, Bob Robertson
2B-Roberto Alomar, Bobby Doerr
3B-Bobby Bonilla, Bob Horner
SS-Bobby Wallace, Bobby Crosby
LF-Bobby Abreau, Bobby Thomson
CF-Bobby Bonds, Bobby Murcer
RF-Robeto Clemente, Bob Meusel
UT-Bob Bailey, Bobby Grich, Bobby Richardson, Bobby Avila, Robby Thompson, Bob Knepper, Bob Friend, Bobby Howry, Roberto Hernandez

I think this team would hold their own.

Forgot about Robert "Lefty" Grove. That gives me 4 Hall of Fame starting pitchers!

[Utter Chaos]

Originally Posted by jalbright

sp--Jim Palmer
sp--Jim "Catfish" Hunter
sp--Jim Bunning
sp--Jim Kaat

RP--Fred "Firpo" Marberry

What about James "Pud" Galvin? He's 5th on the all time win list.

[Ursa Major]

Well, I'm "John Hugh", so I get the following, though I'm sure there's some great ones I'm missing.

c-- Johnny Bench
1b--Johnny Mize
2b--Johnny Evers
3b--John McGraw
ss--Hugh Jennings (thank god for my middle name, or I might be stuck with Johnnie Lemaster!)

OF --
Hugh Duffy
Johnnie "Dusty" Baker
Juan Gonzalez (if Utter Chaos gets "Roberto" for Robert, I get Juan)

sp--Johnny Podres
sp--John Clarkson
sp--Juan Marichal
sp--John Smoltz

RP--John Franco

UT: John "Pop" Lloyd
DH/PH: John "Boog" Powell, John Olerud

[Utter Chaos]

Originally Posted by Ursa Major

Juan Gonzalez (if Utter Chaos gets "Roberto" for Robert, I get Juan)

I don't have a problem with that.

A few more to help your bench:
Johnny Damon, Johnny Callison, Johnny Peskey, Johnny Sain.

And finally John Peter Wagner also known as Honus.

[It's Over The Wall!]

Hmm I was wondering, if a players middle name is my names(Nicholas Lewis)(aubrey huffs middle name is lewis) would I get to use him?

[Johnny Seven]

SP: Eddie Plank
SP: Ed Walsh
SP: Ed Reulbach
SP: Edward "Whitey" Ford
SP: Eddie Cicotte
RP: Mark Wohlers
RP: Edward Miguel Garcia (Mike Garcia)
RP: Ed Head (that's actually his name)
RP: Eddie Guardado
RP: Ed Roebuck

C: Ed Sprague
1B: Mark McGwire
2B: Eddie Collins
3B: Eddie Yost
SS: Mark Belanger
OF: Ed Delahanty
OF: Edward Wesley Schulmerich
OF: Duffy Edward Lewis (if that's allowed)

After my starting pitchers, it gets kinda hard. So many people have Edward as a middle name, but not many good non-pitchers have it as a fist name. Also, Mark does not seem to be too popular among ballplayers.

[jalbright]

Originally Posted by It's Over The Wall!

Hmm I was wondering, if a players middle name is my names(Nicholas Lewis)(aubrey huffs middle name is lewis) would I get to use him?

That's not the way I had in mind, but if others care and the popular will is to overrule that verdict, I'm OK with it.

Jim Albright

[Johnny Seven]

Originally Posted by jalbright

That's not the way I had in mind, but if others care and the popular will is to overrule that verdict, I'm OK with it.

Jim Albright

I hope that other people agree with me, then I could make an (almost) all-HOF team.

[Utter Chaos]

Originally Posted by Johnny Seven

SP: Eddie Plank
SP: Ed Walsh
SP: Ed Reulbach
SP: Edward "Whitey" Ford
SP: Eddie Cicotte
RP: Mark Wohlers
RP: Edward Miguel Garcia (Mike Garcia)
RP: Ed Head (that's actually his name)
RP: Eddie Guardado
RP: Ed Roebuck

C: Ed Sprague
1B: Mark McGwire
2B: Eddie Collins
3B: Eddie Yost
SS: Mark Belanger
OF: Ed Delahanty
OF: Edward Wesley Schulmerich
OF: Duffy Edward Lewis (if that's allowed)

After my starting pitchers, it gets kinda hard. So many people have Edward as a middle name, but not many good non-pitchers have it as a fist name. Also, Mark does not seem to be too popular among ballplayers.

Eddie Murray, Eddie Mathews, Edgar Renteria, Ed Ott, Edgar Martinez, Edwin "Duke" Snider, Edd Roush

[west coast orange and black]

what if alan mitchell edward george patrick henry gallagher wants to put up his team?

[Barnstormer]

Let's see....

C Rick Ferrell
1B Richie Sexson
SS Dickie Thon
3B Richie Allen
OF Rickey Henderson
OF Richie Ashburn
OF Rick Monday
SP Richard “Rube” Marquard
SP Rick Reuschel
SP Rick Rhoden (were Rhoden and Reuschel actually different guys?)
RP Rich “Goose” Gossage

[Johnny Seven]

Originally Posted by Utter Chaos

Eddie Murray, Eddie Mathews, Edgar Renteria, Ed Ott, Edgar Martinez, Edwin "Duke" Snider, Edd Roush

SP: Eddie Plank
SP: Ed Walsh
SP: Ed Reulbach
SP: Edward "Whitey" Ford
SP: Eddie Cicotte
RP: Mark Wohlers
RP: Edward Miguel Garcia (Mike Garcia)
RP: Ed Head (that's actually his name)
RP: Eddie Guardado
RP: Ed Roebuck

C: Ed Sprague
1B: Eddie Murray
2B: Eddie Collins
3B: Eddie Mathews
SS: Mark Belanger
OF: Ed Delahanty
OF: Edd Roush
OF: Edwin "Duke" Snider
DH: Mark McGwire

[It's Over The Wall!]

SP: Nick Altrock
SP: Norman "Nick" Cullop
SP: Nick Maddox
SP: Nick Strincevich
SP: Nick Neugebauer
RP: Nick Bierbrodt
RP:
RP:
RP:
RP:

C:
1B: Nick Etten
2B: Nick Green
3B: Nick Esasky
SS: Nick Punto
OF: Nick Swisher
OF: Sammy Nickual Strang
OF: Nick Cullop
DH: Nick Johnson


My Team Is Pretty Bad

[Utter Chaos]

Originally Posted by It's Over The Wall!

SP: Nick Altrock
SP: Norman "Nick" Cullop
SP: Nick Maddox
SP: Nick Strincevich
SP: Nick Neugebauer
RP: Nick Bierbrodt
RP:
RP:
RP:
RP:

C:
1B: Nick Etten
2B: Nick Green
3B: Nick Esasky
SS: Nick Punto
OF: Nick Swisher
OF: Sammy Nickual Strang
OF: Nick Cullop
DH: Nick Johnson


My Team Is Pretty Bad

I bet the Royals would love to play your team.

To round out your roster:
P: Nick Willhite, Nick Dumovich, Nick Neugebauer, Nick Carter, Nick Regilio
C: Nick Allen

[Erik Bedard]

Originally Posted by Utter Chaos

Eddie Murray, Eddie Mathews, Edgar Renteria, Ed Ott, Edgar Martinez, Edwin "Duke" Snider, Edd Roush

None of them are named Edward! Can he still use them?

[Kroxquo]

Originally Posted by RuthMayBond

Here's Kroxquo's "poor" team

SP-Al(lie) Reynolds
SP-Al Spalding
SP-Al Downing
SP-Al Leiter
RP-Al Holland
RP-Al Hrabosky
C-Al Lopez
1B-Keith Hernandez
2B-Al Spalding
3B-Al Rosen
SS-Alan Trammell
LF-Al Simmons
CF-Al Bumbry
OF-Al Kaline
UT-Al Oliver, Al Smith

That ain't half bad

That actually is a team someone else posted for me after I decried the sorry state of the team I originally came up with. unfortunately, if I am going to be a purist (which I am) I cannot claim any of the following because they are not Allens (my middle name) or any derivation of the spelling:

Allie Reynolds
Al(bert) Spalding
Al(phonso) Downing
Al(ois) Leiter
Al(fred) Holland
Al(fonzo) Lopez
Al(bert) Rosen
Al(oyisius) Simmons
Al(onza) Bumbry
Al(bert) Kaline
Al(bert) Oliver
Al(phonse) Smith

So it leaves me with this team:
SP - Allan Russell
SP - Allen Sothoron
SP - Al Fitzmorris
SP - Alan Benes
SP - Allan Anderson
RP - Al Hrabosky
RP - Keith Foulke
C - Alan Ashby
1B - Keith Hernandez
2B - Keith Lockhart
3B - Al Gallagher
SS - Alan Trammell
OF - Al Zarilla
OF - Al Scheer
OF - Alan Bannister

A couple of almost HOF'ers, another all-star and a bunch of whos?. Not much of a team.

[Utter Chaos]

Originally Posted by MapleSyrupMan

None of them are named Edward! Can he still use them?

Sure, if you refer back to the original you post you'll find:

Originally Posted by jalbright

We can be reasonably liberal in this, since it's all for fun anyway.

[jalbright]

Originally Posted by MapleSyrupMan

None of them are named Edward! Can he still use them?

No problem with that--heck my own team goes with Jimmie, Jimmy, Jim, Fred, Freddie.......

Jim Albright

[RobertHConner]

25 man roster w/ obnoxious per 162 game averages..match ups would be important here, lots of platooning & position swapping..I think this team could hold it's own

c/1b- Robert “Mike” Stanley-R (.270/21 hr/78 rbi/69 r/1 sb/.370 obp/.458 slg/5.90 rc27)
c- Bob O’Farrell-R (.273/6 hr/60 rbi/56 r/4 sb/.360 obp/.388 slg/5.07 rc-27)
1b/lf- Bob Watson-R (.295/16 hr/87 rbi/71 r/2 sb/.364 obp/.447 slg/5.86 rc27)
2b- Bobby Doerr-R (.288/19 hr/108 rbi/95 r/5 sb/.362 obp/.461 slg/5.91 rc27)
2b- Roberto Alomar-S (.300/14 hr/77 rbi/103 r/32 sb/.371 obp/.443 slg/5.89 rc27)
ss- Bobby Crosby-R (.249/20 hr/67 rbi/90 r/5 sb/.326 obp/.431 slg/4.69 rc27)
3b/ss- Robert “Red” Rolfe-L (.289/10 hr/69 rbi/130 r/6 sb/.360 obp/.413 slg/5.54 rd27)
3b/1b- Bob Horner-R (.277/35 hr/109 rbi/89 r/2 sb/.340 obp/.499 slg/5.97 rc27)
3b/rf/cf/lf- Bob Elliott-R (.289/14 hr/98 rbi/87 r/5 sb/.375 obp/.440 slg/5.97 rc27)
rf/cf- Roberto Clemente (.317/16 hr/87 rbi/94 r/6 sb/.359 obp/.475 slg/6.39 rc27)
rf/cf- Bobby Bonds-R (.268/29 hr/90 rbi/110 r/40 sb/5.73 rc27)
lf/cf- Indian Bob Johnson-R (.296/25 hr/112 rbi/108 r/8 sb/.393 obp/.506 slg/7.32 rc27)
rf/3b/lf/1b- Bobby Bonilla-S (.279/22 hr/90 rbi/83 r/3 sb/.358 obp/.472 slg/6.00 rc27)
rf- Bobby Abreu-L (.303/23 hr/95 rbi/104 r/29 sb/.411 obp/.512 slg/7.71 rc27)
lf/rf- Bobby Veach-L (.310/6 hr/104 rbi/85 r/17 sb/.370 obp/.442 slg/5.87 rc27)
lf/rf/3b- Bob Meusel-R (.309/18 hr/123 rbi/95 r/16 sb/.356 obp/.497 slg/6.44 rc27)

SP- Bob Gibson-R (16-11-0/2.91 era/1.188 whip/7.22 K9)
SP- Robert “Lefty” Grove-L (19-8-3/3.06 era/1.278 whip/5.18 K9)
SP- Bob Feller-R (17-10-1/3.25 era/1.316 whip/6.07 K9)
SP- Bob Lemon-R (17-10-1/3.23 era/1.337/4.03 K9)
SP- Bob Veale-L (12-9-2/3.07 era/1.320 whip/7.96 K9)
RP- Bob Lee-R (6-5-15/2.70 era/1.214 whip/5.75 K9)
RP/SP- Bobby Shantz-L (11-9-4/3.38 era/1.260 whip/4.98 K9)
RP- Rob Dibble-R (4-4-36/2.98 era/1.195 whip/12.17 K9)
CP- Robb Nen-R (4-4-33/2.98 era/1.213 whip/9.98 K9)

MGR- Bobby Cox- .566
coach-Bob Brenly- .536
coach- Bob Lillis- .514
coach- Bob Shawkey- .558
coach- Robby Thompson