Let's build a set and an Open Request to Chuck's Used Cards...

(Update: MAN, the names are rolling in! This is going to be a cool set of cards! Keep 'em coming and thanks to everyone that's taken part so far.. Talk about "Bo Knows!")

Heya, Chuck, could you please send me your address so I can get the football cards mailed out to you? Thanks!!

And, for other readers waiting on cards, I can tell you that I have been a busy bee this weekend working on packages for ya! I know I said there was no time limit or time frame as to when the cards would be sent in your general direction, but my wife INSISTS that it take place sooner than later... :-)

Some of you are also getting more than one package based on the envelope/box/creative packaging I've used to put together your free cards.

As I've been sorting through cards, I have come across several players that have names we might necessarily associate with baseball: Gary Cooper, Kenny Rogers, and others. I think it would be cool to create a "not who you thought" set. Not even necessarily an all-baseball set, either... Let's do all sports!

If you can think of players who have names that can (hopefully, easily, but part of the fun will be obscurity, too) be mistaken for another person, feel free to leave it a comment here. After I get enough to make a 'set' of, I'll enlist help in making a set of cards to commemorate those folks!

I'll start with the two that jump into my brain (I'll update the list as more folks are added). Oh, and if someone else has already done this, I swear, I have *NOT* seen it! (Though in church this morning, it occurred to me that a discussion about this kind of thing did take place recently - I think at Night Owl Cards...)

UPDATE: We're getting a great list together! Please see the comments for individual credit on entries. In the meantime, I've asked for Goose Joak's template so I will start building cards using his template (if he lets me)! It will be something of a "SameName insert/subset" or something...

Not who you expect to see with a name like:

Kenny Rogers (country singer/actor, baseball)
Gary Cooper (actor, baseball)
Michael Jackson (king of pop, football/baseball)
Stephen King (horror fiction writer, football 50's/Seattle sounders soccer)
Mike Myers (actor, baseball) (Thanks White Sox Cards!)
Jim Morrison (singer, baseball) (Thanks White Sox cards!)
Paul Mitchell - Hair stylist
Paul Mitchell - Baseball Player

Bobby Brown - R&B singer
Bobby Brown - Ball Player

Benjamin Harrison - US President
Ben Harrison - Baseball Player

Ethan Allen - Patriot
Ethan Allen - Baseball Player

Bobby Allison - NASCAR driver
Bob Allison - Baseball Player

Charles "Chuck" Berry - musician
Charles "Charlie" Berry - Baseball Player

Ricky Nelson. Mid-'80s player for the Mariners.
Ricky Nelson - '50s rocker/heartthrob

Former Cardinal Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson - Boxer

Cris Carpenter - late 80's ballplayer
Chris Carpenter - Current ballplayer

Dave Clark (bb and music)
Dusty Rhodes (bb and wrestling)
John Kennedy (bb and President)

Dave Anderson, sportswiter
Dave Anderson, Dodgers

Jack Armstrong, All American boy
Jack Armstrong, Reds

James Baldwin, writer
James Baldwin, White Sox

Daniel Boone, frontiersman
Daniel Boone, Orioles

Milton Bradley, games
Milton Bradley, Cubs

William Brennan, Supreme Court
William Brennan, Dodgers

Brett Butler, comedienne
Brett Butler, Indians

Mike Davis, writer: "City of Quartz"
Mike Davis, Dodgers

Stephen Foster, composer
Steve Foster, Reds

Albert Hall, building in London
Albert Hall, Braves

Willie Horton, criminal
Willie Horton, Tigers

Glenn Hubbard, economist
Glenn Hubbard, Braves

Brian Johnson, special effects for "The Empire Strikes Back"
Brian Johnson, Giants

Howard Johnson, restaurant
Howard Johnson, Tigers

Jeffrey Jones, actor
Jeffrey Jones, A's

James Earl Jones, Darth Vader
James "Jim" Jones, cult leader
James "Jimmy" Jones, Yankees

Joseph Kennedy, JFK's dad
Joseph Kennedy, Devil Rays

Tommy Kramer, Vikings QB
Tom Kramer, Indians P

Richard Lewis, comedian
Richie Lewis, Marlins

Steve Martin, comedian
Steve Martin, Padres (1991 Bowman)

Dick Miller, actor in Gremlins
Rick Miller, Angels

John Mitchell, Nixon's AG
John Mitchell, Mets

Mike Moore, makes documentaries
Mike Moore, Mariners

Gene Nelson, country singer
Gene Nelson, Yankees

Alfred E. Neuman, Mad Magazine
Al Newman, Twins

Paul O'Neill, economist
Paul O'Neill, Yankees

David Palmer, America's first black president (on "24")
David Palmer, Expos

Johnny Ray, 1950's singer
Johnny Ray, Pirates

Jerry Reed, country singer
Jerry Reed, Indians

RJ Reynolds, cigarettes
RJ Reynolds, Pirates

Steve Rogers, Captain America
Steve Rogers, Expos

Bill Russell, Celtics
Bill Russell, Dodgers

George C. Scott, actor
George Scott, Yankees

Michael Scott, the Office
Mike Scott, Astros

Joe Simpson, svengali
Joe Simpson, Mariners

Billy Smith, Islanders
Billy Smith, Orioles

Dave Stevens, Rocketeer creator
Dave Stevens, Twins

Jeff Stone, kid on the Donna Reed show
Jeff Stone, Phillies

Roy Thomas, comic book writer
Roy Thomas, Mariners

Brian Williams, news anchor
Brian Williams, Astros

Randy Jackson, baseball player
Randy Jackson, entertainer/producer

Del Unser, baseball player
Del Unser, race car driver


Send me yours!