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Thanks. I totally forgot about him until about a week ago when I saw him while searching for a picture of Jonathan Lucroy as a Cub.
November 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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For more on The Only Nolan and other players with fun names, I highly recommend this book. sabrbaseballcards.blog/2020/02/21/b...
Book Review: “Hall of Name” by D.B. Firstman
Having already written about my Wall of Fame, the Hall of Fame, and even the Hall of Game I suppose it was only natural that I write today about the Hall of Name. (Note that a different blogger alr…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Thanks. I don't remember him doing it, but I do remember seeing it on his baseball reference page. (With my commitment to using him unless it precludes using Steve Lake I've tried to figure out every grid category he qualifies for)
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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With only 58 players for the pitcher / Silver Slugger spot and only 60 for the DH / Hall of Fame spot, I don't think you'll see many zeros. Even the most obscure answers for those will likely be half a percent.
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap. #HatstotheLeft for Pedro Strop. #RynoStrong #FO23VER
Grid with columns Born Outside US 50 States and DC, Hall of Fame and Silver Slugger, and rows Played Outfield Min. 1 Game, Designated Hitter Min. 1 Game and Pitched Min. 1 Game. Grid is filled with Pedro Strop, Ernie Banks, Leon Durham, Jim Adduci, Ryne Sandberg, Zach McKinstry, Rowan Wick, Lee Smith and Carlos Zambrano. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of McKinstry are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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If the square comes up again, Max Scherzer is your Dback / Ranger / 40+ WAR qualifier. (I had to look it up)
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap.
Grid with columns White Sox, Phillies and 40+ WAR Career, and rows Orioles, Diamondbacks and Played Right Field Min. 1 Game. Grid is filled with Steve Stone, Keith Moreland, Dizzy Dean, Jon Jay, Amaury Telemaco, Luis Gonzalez, Phil Cavarretta, Bob Dernier and Davey Lopes. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Stone, Dean, Jay, Telemaco, Gonzalez, Lopes are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Seven Cubs, one Michigan Wolverine where no Cub fits, and one blank square where no Cub or Wolverine can go. (Scales and Hill are both Cubs and Wolverines). I had to research to find Konuszewski. Some slap dash copy and paste because only Scales was pictured in the right cap.
Grid with columns Twins, Mariners and Only One Team, and rows Royals, Pirates and Played Left Field Min. 1 Game. Grid is filled with Rich Hill, Mike Montgomery, Blank, Terry Mulholland, Matt Lawton, Dennis Konuszewski, Willi Castro, Henry Cotto and Bobby Scales. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps, except Konuszewski, who is wearing a Michigan Wolverines cap. The pictures of Hill, Montgomery, Mulholland, Lawton, Konuszewski, Castro, Cotto are copied and pasted from other sources. The picture(s) of Rich Hill and Dennis Konuszewski and Bobby Scales have a yellow Michigan block M in the bottom right corner.
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap. Shawon-O-Meter: 41 grid appearances - and rising!
Grid with columns Astros, Guardians and ≤ 3.00 ERA Season, and rows Mets, Padres and All Star. Grid is filled with Anthony Young, Shawon Dunston, Ed Lynch, Jason Heyward, Rich Hill, Craig Lefferts, Kyle Tucker, Rick Sutcliffe and Vance Law. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Young, Lynch, Heyward, Hill, Lefferts, Law are copied and pasted from other sources. The picture(s) of Rich Hill have a yellow Michigan block M in the bottom right corner.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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First thing I look for on a grid is a spot to use him.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Steve Lake grids are the best grids! All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap.
Grid with columns Cardinals, Tigers and 20+ Win Season Pitching, and rows Dodgers, Cubs and 200+ K Season Pitching. Grid is filled with Rick Sutcliffe, Zach McKinstry, Burleigh Grimes, Steve Lake, Keith Moreland, Jack Pfiester, Sam Jones, Matthew Boyd and Orval Overall. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of McKinstry, Grimes, Jones are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Big fan of Carlos Delgado's minor league days?
November 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap. Kicking myself for filling in a Rich Hill square with somebody else. #RynoStrong #FO23VER
Grid with columns Blue Jays, Angels and 40+ HR Season Batting, and rows Red Sox, Atlanta and 100+ RBI Season Batting. Grid is filled with Frank Castillo, Lee Smith, Jimmie Foxx, Carl Edwards Jr., Tommy La Stella, Davey Johnson, George Bell, Bobby Bonds and Ryne Sandberg. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Foxx, Edwards Jr., La Stella, Johnson, Bell, Bonds are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap.
Grid with columns Giants, Rangers and Nationals, and rows Phillies, White Sox and Rays. Grid is filled with Gary Matthews Sr., Dickie Noles, Darold Knowles, Steve Stone, Geovany Soto, Scott Sanderson, Matt Duffy, Matt Garza and Cliff Floyd. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Matthews Sr., Stone, Sanderson, Duffy, Garza, Floyd are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Zonk!
November 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Or were nicknamed Cap, and was very wrong, not right, on racial integration. I don't like to use him, but there are only three Cubs who reached 3,000 career hits.
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap*. #RynoStrong #FO23VER
Grid with columns 3000+ Hits Career Batting, Rookie of the Year and Played Third Base Min. 1 Game, and rows 200+ Hits Season Batting, .300+ Avg Season Batting and Gold Glove. Grid is filled with Lou Brock, Billy Williams, Ryne Sandberg, Cap Anson, Kerry Wood, Todd Haney, Rafael Palmeiro, Ken Hubbs and Ernie Banks. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Brock, Palmeiro are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Steve Lake grids are the best grids!
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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It's funny how some things just stick in one's brain. Drew Butera was Sal Perez's backup in KC back when Perez almost never sat. Then they had a collision during the World Baseball Classic, Perez got injured, and Butera got MLB playing time.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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He's Drew's father.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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And you would not believe how much time it took me to find a picture of Joliet Jeff Reed wearing a Cubs cap. I finally found it using the Internet Archive of ESPN's website from 2000.
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Steve Lake grids are the best grids! With former Cub AND All-Star Ron Coomer, All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap, and one spot where I do not think any Cub fits. #RynoStrong #FO23VER
Grid with columns Yankees, Played Catcher Min. 1 Game and MVP, and rows Cubs, Athletics and Twins. Grid is filled with Fred Merkle, Steve Lake, Ryne Sandberg, Rich Hill, Jake Fox, Jimmie Foxx, Ron Coomer, Jeff Reed and Blank. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Merkle, Hill, Foxx, Coomer, Reed are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap.

Also, while looking for a picture of Lucroy as a Cub I found a picture of Rowan Wick, whom I'd totally forgotten about. I hope to work him into a grid in the next couple of weeks.
Grid with columns Guardians, Pirates and 6+ WAR Season, and rows Atlanta, Orioles and Brewers. Grid is filled with Tyler Houston, Rabbit Maranville, Jason Heyward, Tim Stoddard, Rich Hill, Rafael Palmeiro, José Hernández, Rob Zastryzny and Jonathan Lucroy. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Maranville, Heyward, Stoddard, Hill, Palmeiro, Lucroy are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap.
Grid with columns Padres, Mariners and Played First Base Min. 1 Game, and rows Reds, Tigers and Played Center Field Min. 1 Game. Grid is filled with Randy Myers, Mike Freeman, Leon Durham, Keith Moreland, Austin Jackson, Harvey Kuenn, Marvell Wynne Sr., Henry Cotto and Kris Bryant. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Myers, Freeman, Jackson, Kuenn, Wynne Sr., Cotto, Bryant are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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All Cubs, with some slap dash copy and paste to show them all in the right cap.

Sort of the anti-@weekendsofsound.bsky.social grid - not a single one of these players was pictured as a Cub.
Grid with columns Marlins, Mets and Astros, and rows Royals, Giants and Angels. Grid is filled with Benito Santiago, Rich Hill, Martín Maldonado, Moisés Alou, Ángel Pagán, Jerome Williams, Jorge Soler, Dave Kingman and Dexter Fowler. All players are pictured wearing Cubs caps. The pictures of Santiago, Hill, Maldonado, Alou, Pagán, Williams, Soler, Kingman, Fowler are copied and pasted from other sources.
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM