Ok, I'm a dork. A long time ago I did some searching & came up with lists of players in a whole shitload of different categories. What I mean by "food" players is all the ones who have either first, last, or nicknames that have anything to do with food. I wanted to see how many we could name. I've got some pretty weird categories.
Holidays (Luke Easter)
names of beer (Bing Miller)
parts of a house (Matt Stairs)
bodies of water (Wade Boggs)
weapons (Scott Bullett)
birds (Robin Roberts)
money (Brad Penny)
occupations (Joe Judge)
animals (Mike Lamb)
body parts (Dave Brain)
see? lol.
Well since this is the RBI Baseball topics board, I'll start with an RBI'er.
Chili Davis
potatoes.
Jim Rice
How about Kevin Bass?
More categories (I like this thread)...
Architectural Styles: John Tudor
Musical Instruments: Frank Viola
Farm Implements: Don Baylor
Types Of Weather: Tim Raines
Names Of The Guy Who Caught The Immaculate Reception: Julio Franco, John Franco
Families Who Hosted A Sasquatch: Dave Henderson
More Than One Burk: Ellis Burks
Darryl Strawberry
chet lemon
Kevin Seitzer.
Candy Maldonado
Name that is a car: Curt Ford
Name that rhymes with truck: John Kruk
Name that ejaculates: Danny Cox
Name that enjoys Cox: Randy Bush
Name of a kind of newspaper: Ken Dayley
Polish Sounding: Tom Brunansky
Name of royalty: Eric King
I'm out
Felix Pie
Way to stay on topic.
Rusty Kuntz?
Hahahahaha, these are great.
Another musical instrument: Sam Horn
Royalty: Ray Knight, Max Bishop
Fish: Steve Trout, Tim Salmon
Famous: Mike Tyson, Dan Boone, Dusty Rhodes
Colors: Bud Black (white) Frank White (black)
Weather: Josh Fogg, J.T. Snow
6-letters: Mel Ott, Ron Cey
X-Rated: Rusty Kuntz, Johnny Dickshot, Candy Cummings
Money: Barry Bonds, Milt Stock, Scott Bankhead
Battery: Al Kaline
Playboy Playmate: Shannon Stewart
Cereal: Coco Crisp
Fast Food: Pete Fries
Girls names: Christy Mathewson, Shannon Stewart, Sandy Koufax
Homers: Homer Smoot, Homer Bush
Family: Granny Hamner, Dad Clarke, Dan Brouthers
Video game heroes: Mario Mendoza, Kirby Puckett
Transportation: Ichiro Suzuki, Chuck Carr, Virgil Trucks
Fishing: Rod Carew
We're murderers: Hack Wilson, Mike Butcher, Ron Hunt, Shooty Babbit, Scott Bullett, Ray Blades.
Excuse Me: Tim Belcher
Not Old: Ross Youngs, Kid Nichols
Wild Game: Moose Solters, Rob Deer, Jay Partridge
are awesome: wade boggs.
Take It Off: Joe Stripp
Awards: Cecil Espy, Oscar Gamble
Idiots: Mickey Klutts, Dummy Hoy
Farmers: Zack Wheat, Jim Rice, The Georgia Peach
I forgot about this being the RBI board, had to put at least one in.
How about Mike Heath (candy bar)
Also:
Kevin Ritz (crackers)
Billy Beane?
Yeah he counts. Actually, in 1985 or 1986 there were TWO Billy Bean's on the Tigers. But one was spelled Bill Bean. Would have been interesting had they both played for Boston (Beantown).
Ah shit I forgot the e on Beane, oh well. Thanks for covering up. That's what I heard, they could have been gay guys, at least one of them, I think it was Beane...