What are those last names I've been using?

[milagros317]

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A) The names that I've been using in the "Alphabetical Last Names Thread":


Amoros

Baker

Campanella

Drysdale

Erskine

Furillo

Gilliam

Hodges

Ishii

Johnson

Koufax

Labine

Mota

Newcombe

Osteen

Podres

Quinn

Robinson

Snider

Torborg

Underwood

Valenzuela

Wills

Yeager

Zimmer


In case it isn't obvious from the famous ones, they all played for the Dodgers. 😀


B) What they were know as in baseball and what is on their birth certificate (as far as is known by the editors of the Baseball Encyclopedia):


Sandy Amoros
Edmundo Isasi Amorós

Dusty Baker
Johnnie B. Baker, Jr.

Roy Campanella
Roy Campanella

Don Drysdale
Donald Scott Drysdale

Carl Erskine
Carl Daniel Erskine

Carl Furillo
Carl Anthony Furillo

Jim Gilliam
James William Gilliam, Jr.

Gil Hodges
Gilbert Ray Hodges

Kazuhisa Ishii
Ishii Kazuhisa
[The family name comes first in Japan.]

Lou Johnson
Louis Brown Johnson

Sandy Koufax
Sanford Braun
[His mother divorced Jack Braun when he was 3 years old and later married Irving Koufax who adopted him.]

Clem Labine
Clement Walter Labine

Manny Mota
Manuel Rafael Mota Geronimo
[Geronimo is his mother's family name, often given after the father's family name in Spanish speaking countries.]

Don Newcombe
Donald Newcombe

Claude Osteen
Claude Wilson Osteen

Johnny Podres
John Joseph Podres

Jack Quinn
John Picus Quinn

Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson

Duke Snider
Edwin Donald Snider

Jeff Torborg
Jeffrey Allen Torborg

Fred Underwood
Fred Theodore Underwood

Fernando Valenzuela
Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea
[Anguamea is his mother's family name, often given after the father's family name in Spanish speaking countries.]

Maury Wills
Maurice Morning Wills

Steve Yeager
Stephen Wayne Yeager

Don Zimmer
Donald William Zimmer