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Baseball brings us together. In this post, I try to bring together the nations of Europe by matching as many of them as I can with the names of current or former MLB players.
First, the ground rules. Only major league players are eligible. The players’ actual names are preferred to nicknames, though I used a few nicknames where they were particularly apt. I mostly matched players to country names, eponyms, language names, or capital cities, though there are a few wild card choices.
My goal was to match as many countries to players as possible; for several countries, there were lots of good choices, but I only listed one or two. If you think someone else is a better fit for a certain country, please let me know in the comments.
The countries below are listed in order of decreasing population, from Russia down to Vatican City. It’s not a complete list; I’ve left off the countries for which I couldn’t find a match.
UPDATE 2/17/2012: I included a few reader suggestions.
Russia
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Germany
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France
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Ukraine
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Spain
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(capital city: Madrid)
Poland
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Romania
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(capital city: Bucharest)
The Netherlands
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(double points!)
Kazakhstan
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Greece
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Portugal
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Belarus
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Czech Republic
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Hungary
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(“The Mad Hungarian”)
Sweden
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Azerbaijan
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(capital city: Baku)
Austria
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Bulgaria
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Switzerland
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Denmark
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Serbia
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… hat tip to commenter Matt W.
Finland
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Georgia
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Norway
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(capital city: Oslo)
Croatia
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… hat tip to Matt W.
Moldova
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(capital city: Chisinau)… another one from Matt W.
Ireland
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Bosnia & Herzegovina
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… I’d love to have a “Bosnia” player, but I couldn’t find a good one.
Albania
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Latvia
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(capital city: Riga)
Estonia
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Cyprus
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Luxembourg
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(a.k.a. “The Count of Luxemburg”… but mainly I added him because his name rhymes)
Iceland
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(capital city: Reykjavik)
Monaco
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San Marino
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Vatican City
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(for similar reasons)
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Okay, that’s all I could come up with. If you have any alternate suggestions for the countries above, or ideas for the countries I couldn’t find a match for, please leave a comment.
The unmatched countries in Europe are: Belgium, Slovakia, Lithuania, Armenia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Malta, Andorra, and Liechtenstein.
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Excellent work. An alternate suggestion for Iceland: Ray Chadwick.
Hahaha, good one, Dan. Took me a second, but I like it.
Belgium: Bill Russell? B. Russell, you know? Kind of a stretch.
Serbia: Johnny “Big Serb” Miljus.
Croatia: Michael Crotta? I had to look him up and can’t figure out how his name is pronounced, which is pretty embarrassing because he was on my team’s opening day roster last year.
Is Wil Nieves too much of a stretch for Lithuania?
Malta: Red Bullock, whose first name was Malton?
Moldova: Lonnie Chisenhall, definitely (capital Chisinau). I suppose they’re probably pronounced nothing alike, but what were the odds that we’d get someone whose name was anywhere near the capital of Moldova?
Good suggestions, especially Chisenhall. I’ll add them to the post.
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