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MLB All-Time Names: The All-Horrid Name Team

By Rick Soisson

Baseball field, engraving, United States of America, 19th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
Baseball field, engraving, United States of America, 19th century. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) /
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Cigarette card features American baseball player Flame Delhi (1892 – 1966) of the Los Angeles Angels (from the Pacific Coast League), Los Angeles, California, 1911. (Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images) /

Right-handed pitchers

RHP “Foots” Barfoot: Clyde Barfoot compiled an 8-10 record and a 4.10 ERA, for the 1922-’23 Cardinals and the ’26 Yankees. His 1.434 WHIP probably doomed him. In his parts of three seasons he issued 66 walks while striking out only 49.

Did Barfoot ever get to have a beer in peace? Did he have particularly large – or small – feet? Or did he just like to play footsie at the bar? Has any other All-Time list involved such questions?

RHP “Flame” Delhi: This player definitely flamed out, throwing only three innings with the White Sox in 1912. Lee William Delhi was only 19 when he appeared, and he didn’t get much defensive support in his debut and last game. He gave up six runs, but only three were earned, and it seems odd the Pale Hose wouldn’t give a 6-foot-2, 198-pound hurler at least another few innings.

It’s not clear whether or not Delhi opened a steakhouse later in life. It could have been 333 Steaks, in honor of his three innings pitched and his 3.333 WHIP.

RHP John Urrea: John Goody Urrea is the first modern player on the list. He pissed around with the Cardinals and Padres between ’77 and ’81, compiling a 17-18 record. A first-round draft choice in 1974 (14th overall), he managed to pitch 363 1/3 innings in his career, and booked a respectable final ERA of 3.74 with nine saves.

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