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There is a long tradition among Japanese baseball video games of rosters with “parody” names, usually replacing one consonant or vowel with a different consonant or vowel in each name, like Ogawa -> Okawa. ''Fighting'' ''Baseball'' opted for something a little more extreme, creating whole rosters of chopped and screwed versions of real athlete names. Plenty of names are recognizable shuffles of existing players on the team (For instance, the Atlanta roster includes Blavine, Redrosian, and McSriff, all playing different positions than actual Braves players Glavine, Bedrosian, and McGriff). | There is a long tradition among Japanese baseball video games of rosters with “parody” names, usually replacing one consonant or vowel with a different consonant or vowel in each name, like Ogawa -> Okawa. ''Fighting'' ''Baseball'' opted for something a little more extreme, creating whole rosters of chopped and screwed versions of real athlete names. Plenty of names are recognizable shuffles of existing players on the team (For instance, the Atlanta roster includes Blavine, Redrosian, and McSriff, all playing different positions than actual Braves players Glavine, Bedrosian, and McGriff). | ||
The strong minority of Russian-looking names reveals that the source for these names included hockey players as well as baseball players, and you may be able to pick out some football names as well. A popular tweet screencapped a page full of these names:<blockquote>fighting baseball for super famicom. some japanese guy had to come up with a whole league of fake american names pic.twitter.com/4lwzoBpg9f | The strong minority of Russian-looking names reveals that the source for these names included hockey players as well as baseball players, and you may be able to pick out some football names as well. [https://twitter.com/lrgmnn/status/813635533658144768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw A popular tweet] screencapped a page full of these names:<blockquote>fighting baseball for super famicom. some japanese guy had to come up with a whole league of fake american names pic.twitter.com/4lwzoBpg9f | ||
— Largemann (@lrgmnn) December 27, 2016</blockquote>Among a certain crowd, Bobson Dugnutt and Todd Bonzalez are famous names thanks to this tweet. The commentary database in MLB The Show includes most of these names, so you can hear Matt Vasgersian introduce your create-a-player as Willie Dustice. You can even buy a Bobson Dugnutt t-shirt. Miketruk.com, created by @HexyLilith on Twitter, randomly generates more fake names like the ''Fighting Baseball'' roster screenshot, combining real MLB player names. | — Largemann (@lrgmnn) December 27, 2016</blockquote>Among a certain crowd, Bobson Dugnutt and Todd Bonzalez are famous names thanks to this tweet. The commentary database in MLB The Show includes most of these names, so you can hear Matt Vasgersian introduce your create-a-player as Willie Dustice. You can even buy a Bobson Dugnutt t-shirt. Miketruk.com, created by @HexyLilith on Twitter, randomly generates more fake names like the ''Fighting Baseball'' roster screenshot, combining real MLB player names. | ||
== External Links == | |||
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR80mYcpeLxV6_wFGrR987_Co_A1beprwTo_0pmacIZFdgyIIrbsvMpVhyibdGxcJX78js_3vZUEsCN/pubhtml A Google Sheet with the full rosters from the game] | |||
* [https://30-30.club/2023/09/25/fighting-baseball-mod-for-out-of-the-park-baseball-24/ A mod for ''Out of the Park Baseball 24'' that will add ''Fighting Baseball''<nowiki/>'s rosters and logos to the game] | |||
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