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Holy crap, Rich Becker

Edgy DC Mar 31 2007 12:56 PM

Check out the man's middle name. I might have died not knowing that was his middle name.

iramets Mar 31 2007 01:03 PM Re: Holy crap, Rich Becker

Edgy DC wrote: Check out the man's middle name. I might have died not knowing that was his middle name. I wonder who's going to be the UMDB's biggest hit today?

A Boy Named Seo Mar 31 2007 02:26 PM

He made a huge mistake not going by Dick.

Nymr83 Mar 31 2007 02:49 PM

especially when they list you alphabetically, then he'd be Becker, Dick ... edit, yes i'm going to make you go to umdb to see his middle name

OlerudOwned Mar 31 2007 04:54 PM

UMDB and Baseball Reference have two different middle names listed. They're both hilarious in their own way.

Nymr83 Mar 31 2007 06:41 PM

based on the two one is likely a typo not a complete mistake

vtmet Mar 31 2007 06:51 PM

Nymr83 wrote: based on the two one is likely a typo not a complete mistake thebaseballcube.com version is the same as the ultimatemets.com version...looks like baseballreference.com left off a letter...

OlerudOwned Mar 31 2007 06:56 PM

vtmet wrote: ="Nymr83"]based on the two one is likely a typo not a complete mistake thebaseballcube.com version is the same as the ultimatemets.com version...looks like baseballreference.com left off a letter... I wonder if Baseball Reference thought the real one was a joke.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 31 2007 07:11 PM

Retrosheet has the shorter version. The one on UMDB matches the one in The Sporting News Baseball Register. We'll have to invite him here to discuss his middle name.

metirish Mar 31 2007 08:49 PM

Would be even cooler if his last name was Pecker....

Edgy DC Mar 31 2007 09:06 PM

I added the middle-name dispute to his Wikipedia entry. They'll probably cut if for being the most interesting thing there.

Frayed Knot Mar 31 2007 09:08 PM

]We'll have to invite him here to discuss his middle name I'm betting it's a family name and Rich inherited the common WASP-ish tradition of carrying your mother's maiden name (or other such family moniker) as your middle name. Could also be a name that is an Anglicized version of Gerhardt or something along those lines. I remember this hockey player from years ago whose name was Larry Goodenough. When I first heard it I assumed they were saying Godunov as some similar Eastern European name even though this was before the flood of pro players from that area. It wasn't until I saw it in print that I realized that it was spelled and pronounced exactly like you'd spell and say the phrase; 'Good Enough'. I always wondered about the origins of that one. Not surprisingly, his nickname was Izzy.

Edgy DC Mar 31 2007 09:10 PM

I imagine he's of Northern European stock and it's simply an archaic Germanic version of Goodheart.

DocTee Mar 31 2007 10:17 PM

He must've had a helluva time in middle school