7 Responses to “Name Chain #4”

1. PhillyHeb Says:
   August 20th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

   Okay, check ut this one:

   Nolan Ryan
   Ryan Howard
   Howard Farmer
   Farmer Ray
   Ray Herbert
   Herbert Score

2. PhillyHeb Says:
   August 20th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

   Okay, check out this one:

   Nolan Ryan
   Ryan Howard
   Howard Farmer
   Farmer Ray
   Ray Herbert
   Herbert Score

3. llewdrac Says:
   August 20th, 2007 at 11:02 pm

   Love these. How about nine?

   Gary Nolan Ryan Howard Earl Henry Aaron Robinson Cano

4. PhillyHeb Says:
   August 21st, 2007 at 12:53 pm

   Congrats, llewdrac, y ou may have it nailed at 9--a new indoor record! Case closed!

5. Andy Says:
   August 21st, 2007 at 12:59 pm

   Oh you guys need to read the comments on the earlier post Name Chain #2

   http://www.baseball-reference.com/sotd/archives/150#comments

6. PhillyHeb Says:
   August 21st, 2007 at 7:07 pm

   You're right, Andy. Took a look. Scary. Thanks.

7. gerry Says:
   March 15th, 2009 at 7:19 pm

   We did this on the Usenet newsgroup rec.sport.baseball in April 1992, in the thread, Spanning the Names. You might want to look at what we came up with in that long-vanished era before baseballreference. We took it up again on the statlg-l mailing list in February 2002 and came up with

   Jerry Manuel Lee Thomas Gorman Thomas John Denny Doyle Alexander Cole Liniak and

   Ricardo Joseph (a/k/a "Claude") Raymond Charles Frank Charles Manuel Lee Thomas Gorman Thomas John Denny Doyle Alexander "Farmer" Ray Boyd Perry Currin