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2007-05-11 17:12
by Bob Timmermann

The Seattle Mariners placed struggling pitcher Jeff Weaver (0-6, 14.32 ERA) on the disabled list and recalled Australian lefty Ryan Rowland-Smith from AAA Tacoma.

From my extensive research, i.e. eyeballing the list of names of every major leaguer that is listed in Baseball-Reference.com, Rowland-Smith is the first Major Leaguer to have a hyphenated last name.

So far, the only punctuation in last names have been apostrophes (mainly for Irish players whose names start with O') and periods (for players who have names that start with "St.")

There have been a handful of players with hyphenated first names, which are either nicknames (such as Jo-Jo White) or transliterated names into English (such as Chun-hui Tsao.)

Remember that my "research" on this was done in about 5-10 minutes while I was also watching the Mets-Brewers game on TV, so my possibility of an error is great.

 

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2007-05-11 17:47:50
1.   Eric Enders
"There have been a handful of players with hyphenated first names, which are either nicknames (such as Jo-Jo White) or transliterated names into English"

Or this guy
http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/griffjo01.shtml

Sort of weird that there haven't been any hyphenated surnames in baseball, since they seem to be not all that uncommon in other sports (Abdul-Jabbar, Abdur-Raheem, Abdul-Rauf, Douglas-Roberts, Jones-Drew, etc.)

2007-05-12 12:24:53
2.   LAT
Sounds like Jeff Weaver needs to go to the Mike Marshall school of pitching.
2007-05-13 10:00:06
3.   El Lay Dave
Abdul-Jabbar, Abdur-Raheem, Abdul-Rauf...

Are there any muslims in MLB? Perhaps it might be difficult to be Mr. September/October while observing Ramadan? In the NBA, that occurs during pre-season, mostly, where it's just practice, man, we're talking about practice; we're not talking about the games.

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