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Baseball quiz of a different stripe.... and I don't mean pinstripes

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In the words of Ernie Banks, "Let's play two!" As a follow-up to BobF's challenging baseball history TD, here's another baseball quiz to chew on during a June weekend and beyond.

According to Baseball-Reference.com, entering the 2014 season 18,174 players have been on a major league baseball team. That's a lot of names. Your task is to identify as many players as you can whose names (first, last or nickname) are:

A. Parts of a human or animal body, e.g. Rollie Fingers, -or-
B. Related to water, e.g. Mickey Rivers, -or-
C. Related to food, e.g. Cookie Lavagetto

Phonetic matches qualify. Managers, coaches, owners, etc. are fair game here too.

I don't see any need to "spoiler" them.
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Cookie Rojas
Pie Traynor
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I was only able to think of three:

A
Mordecai "3 Fingers" Brown

C
Candy Maldonado
Jim Rice
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Tim Raines
Mike Salmon
Storm Davis is a stretch
Curt Flood
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Chili Davis
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For food, I think Daryl Strawberry is an obvious one.
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Turkey Stearnes
Dusty Baker ( a baker makes food, right?)
Shin Soo Choo
Cookie Rojas
Coco Crisp
Jim Poole
Babe Ruth (the candy bar)
Rick Ankiel (a bit of a stretch!)
David Wells
Doug Creek
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Bartolo Colon
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This Is Kirk! wrote:Shin Soo Choo
Good one!
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Chet Lemon

For the R-rated category:
Bobby Cox
Rusty Kuntz
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Can't forget J. T. Snow
Also, Benji Gil
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This Is Kirk! wrote: For the R-rated category:
Bobby Cox
Rusty Kuntz
You forgot Walter Johnson!
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Brooks Robinson, of course
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StevenH wrote:
This Is Kirk! wrote: For the R-rated category:
Bobby Cox
Rusty Kuntz
You forgot Walter Johnson!
Yeah, but it was Randy Johnson that was the Big Unit.
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I once made up a list of bands with either food or color names.
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OrangeSAM wrote: Mike Salmon

You probably mean either Mike Trout, or Tim Salmon (both good answers).

And on that theme:

Steve Trout
Randy Bass
Jim "Catfish" Hunter
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Felix Pie
Zach Wheat
Phil Coke
Marlon Byrd (Marlin Bird? - ok, sort of lame)
Barry Foote
Don Gullett
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Also:

Bake McBride
Aaron Cook
Jason Grilli, maybe.


Does Tim Hudson fit for water?
How about George Springer?
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Corey Hart
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In the food category, I offer a complete meal: Bob Veale, Spud Chandler, and Billy Beane. Afterward, Bobby Wine.

In the body parts category, Kirk! beat me to Hart (I had Jim Ray Hart in mind), but I do have Johnny Temple and Bill Hands.

Came up dry (sorry, couldn't resist) in the water category.
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