Comments on: Name Chain #4

By: gerry

gerry — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:19:52 +0000

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

By: PhillyHeb

PhillyHeb — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:07:54 +0000

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

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:59:04 +0000

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

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

By: PhillyHeb

PhillyHeb — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:53:15 +0000

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

By: llewdrac

llewdrac — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:02:39 +0000

Love these. How about nine?

Gary Nolan Ryan Howard Earl Henry Aaron Robinson Cano

By: PhillyHeb

PhillyHeb — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:04:13 +0000

Okay, check out this one:

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

By: PhillyHeb

PhillyHeb — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:03:23 +0000

Okay, check ut this one:

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