Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Reason #14,888 Why I Love To Blog: Trivia -- Oasis Wells Named After Major League Baseball Players

Perhaps I was the last to notice this but I haven't seen any articles on this. Oasis appears to be naming a series of wells after major league baseball players, many of which were left-handed players (or that may simply be coincidental). Here are some of the names of major league baseball players for whom Oasis appears to have named wells (some of the names are common and may simply be coincidental):
  • Mangum
  • Musial -- left-handed
  • Sheffield
  • Gonzalez
  • Bench
  • Ripken, Jr
  • Carter
  • Wolf
  • Evans
  • Snider
  • Palmeiro
  • Matthews
  • Sosa
  • Maris -- batted left, threw right
  • Mantle
  • Robinson
  • Banks
  • Williams
  • Kingman
  • Aaron
  • Ruth
  • Bonds
  • Schmidt
  • McGwire
  • Killebrew
  • Mays
  • Jackson
  • Thomas
  • Hodges
  • Ott
  • Winfield
  • Griffey, Jr
  • McGriff
  • Gehrig -- left-handed
  • Kuykendall
  • Karst
  • Buxbaum
  • Andrews
  • Link
  • White
  • Patsy (possibly)
  • Slagle
  • Snuffy
  • Kiner
  • Payette (a stretch; Harmon Killebrew was born in Payette, Idaho)
  • Kline
  • Flynn
  • A. Johnson
  • Shields
  • Johnny Schmitz -- left-handed
  • Lefty

1 comment:

  1. Fascinating. There must a whole cottage industry for those naming oil and gas wells.

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