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I always think of the baseball player Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_McLish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal
by saghm 5y ago
I always think of the baseball player Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_McLish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_McLish). Apparently his dad wanted to make up for not getting to name his older siblings, so he gave him as many names as possible.
- elliekelly 5y agoAll those names and the nickname that stuck was “Bus”? The best laid plans, I guess.
- slg 5y agoAre you by any chance a Jordan Jesse Go listener? I had never heard of McLish before and he just came up on the show yesterday as an example of a fake sounding name for a baseball player.
- saghm 5y agoNope! I actually haven't heard of that (I assume it's a podcast; I don't listen to any personally). I just grew up a big fan of baseball, and since my dad had always been as well, he shared a bunch of knowledge with me directly and through various books I read as a kid. I'm honestly not sure how exactly I first heard of him, since I was so young when it happened.
- slg 5y agoYes, it is a relatively niche comedy podcast so it isn't that common to run into fans outside of that niche. But on the other hand I'm also a baseball fan and hadn't heard of him until yesterday so it was a little surprising to see his name again immediately. Plus the story of his name is too memorable for this to just be the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Just a funny coincidence I guess.