When it comes to the fact that LeBron James is by far the best player on the planet, it seems like a lot of ignorant Lakers fans are trying to argue that Kobe Bryant is at least at LeBron’s level, if not better. However, when asked to explain his reasoning, the only answer Lakers fans can think of is that Kobe has won 5 championships. So let’s take a look at the flaws in this argument.

Kobe Bryant was selected by the Charlotte Hornets with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA draft. Now if Kobe had done the honorable thing, the respectful thing, he would have shown gratitude to the Hornets for showing faith in his abilities, and he would have been worked hard to help the franchise turn things around, and possibly make a decent run in the playoffs. But no, Kobe showed all the sleazy traits of a spineless snake, and demanded to be traded to the title-contending Lakers, where he could play under the greatest coach in the history of the game, Phil Jackson.

So the smug kid got away with it, betrayed the faith the Hornets had instilled in their draft pick, and headed West. Kobe saw little playing time in his first two seasons with Phil Jackson, though he did manage to work his way into the Lakers’ starting lineup for their title run in 2000.

Playing alongside league MVP Shaquille O’Neal and veteran superstars Glen Rice and Ron Harper, Kobe’s number was a dismal 35% during his first Finals series against the Indiana Pacers. He managed to average a below-average 15 points per game, just slightly more than Rice and Harper, even though Bryant took twice as many shots as the two combined. Fortunately for Kobe, Shaq, the Lakers’ undisputed superstar, carried him on his shoulders, leading the Lakers to the championship with 38 points and 17 rebounds per game.

The 2001 series finale against the Philadelphia 76ers was the same old story: Kobe played Robin in Shaq’s Batman, leading the big men to a second straight title. Shaq leads all players with 33 points and 16 rebounds per game.

A year later, the Lakers were faced with a daunting task: how to beat the Sacramento Kings. After being outworked, pressured and played by their California neighbors, the Lakers found themselves in an unknown situation, losing 3 games to 2 in their Western Conference final matchup. This time, Kobe not only trusted Shaq to get the job done, but he enlisted the services of NBA Commissioner David Stern, who, along with the referees in charge, orchestrated one of the most disgusting displays of match-fixing in history. sports history. In what is now commonly referred to as the “NBA’s Greatest Tragedy”, Commissioner Stern ordered the referees in charge to “send the series to game 7, no matter what.” The commissioner was concerned that the prospect of a Kings v Nets final series would be dire for television ratings, and he was determined to have at least one marketable franchise playing for the title in June… that marketable franchise he chose was the Lakers. Simply YouTube the highlights of this game to see for yourself. Former NBA referee and convicted match-fixer Tim Donaghy was the scapegoat the NBA used to sweep the scandal under the rug: Donaghy went to prison, the Lakers won the title…that’s sweet American diplomacy! for you!

Even though the Lakers shouldn’t even have been playing in the 2002 Finals, Shaq did what Shaq always does and led the Lakers to a 4-0 sweep of the New Jersey Nets. His 37 points and 13 rebounds earned him his third straight Finals MVP award. By betraying the Hornets all those years before, Kobe was able to sit back and bask in Shaq’s glory.

After a very successful season with the Lakers, Shaq decided it was time to move on: he had done everything he could for that franchise, single-handedly leading them to 3 straight titles, reminiscent of Michael Jordan’s impact with the Bulls in the ’90s. In his first season without the big man, Kobe led the Lakers to an amazing 34-48 record, pretty embarrassing for a team that had just won 3 championships, but hey, I guess that’s what happens when a team loses. to his Batman. A Robin team just can’t compete.

So the evidence is clear: Kobe’s contribution to the Lakers’ championships is far from great: He played second fiddle, just as Scottie Pippen played second fiddle to Jordan all those years before. Without Shaq’s influence, the Lakers would have been a mid-table team struggling to make the playoffs, and Kobe would have had no rings.

The difference between Kobe and LeBron is not the number of rings, but the choices they chose to make. Kobe chose the easy path, the weak path: to betray the team that gave him a chance, simply to become a role player on a champion team. LeBron chose the hard road, the honorable road taken by some of the best to ever play the game, including Jordan and Larry Bird. They were drafted by struggling teams, who relied on these young stars to turn their franchise around: Jordan did it for the Bulls, Bird did it for the Celtics and LeBron did it for the Cavs.

LeBron could have gone the way of Kobe: He could have stabbed the Cavaliers in the back and demanded a trade to a title contender like the Detroit Pistons, to be coached by one of the greats: Larry Brown. But instead, he showed that he had a backbone. He showed that he is a man of integrity, a man who can be trusted and respected. He stayed with the Cavs and agreed to play for little-known coach Paul Silas.

One can only imagine how many championship rings LeBron would have if he had taken the ‘Kobe’ approach. Playing alongside Rip Hamilton, Chauncy Billups, Rasheed and the Larry Brown-coached Ben Wallace, The King would have likely won 5 straight in his first 5 years, easily surpassing anything Kobe was capable of.

LeBron’s stats speak for themselves: he annihilates Kobe in scoring, rebounding, assists, blocks and steals, shoots a much better field goal percentage and higher 3-point percentage, he’s the 2nd Defensive Player of the Year and 2x MVP , the only argument any Kobe fan can make is the rings, but hey, we just refuted that argument too!

1954-55 marked Topps’ first series of NHL hockey cards. Out of that set came three significant, albeit working-class, rookie cards. Combined, the three played 2,915 regular season games in the National Hockey League. Two had played youth hockey together with the OHA’s Barrie Flyers. The same two would start their NHL careers with the Boston Bruins. One would go on to be awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year, while two of the three would go on to win the Lady Byng Trophy once in their careers.

Doug Mohns

Card number 18 in the 1954-55 Topps set is the Doug Mohns rookie card. Mohns played his rookie year with the Bruins in 1953-54 after playing junior for the Barrie Flyers. The defenseman was an immediate success with 27 points in Boston’s 70 regular season games.

Doug played in the National Hockey League from 1953-54 to 1974-75 with the Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota North Stars, Atlanta Flames, and Washington Capitals. He played 1,390 regular season games. During the 2013-14 season, Teemu Selanne will overtake Mohns in the list of players with the most games played, pushing Doug to 36th position.

As a defenseman from the pre-Bobby Orr era, Doug’s numbers are very good. He scored 248 goals and assisted 462 for 710 points. In 94 playoff games, he has added 50 points. However, despite the large number of playoff games, Mohns was never a Stanley Cup champion. Some say the lost championship was the only thing that kept Doug from being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. It may be the only thing in the world of vintage hockey cards that keeps the value of your rookie card at a still-respectable book value of $125.

Camila Henry

Camille ‘The Eel’ started her NHL career strong in 1953-54. He scored 24 goals and had 39 points in 66 games for the New York Rangers to win the Calder Memorial Trophy. Camille Henry’s rookie card is listed as number 32 in the 1954-55 Topps set and has a book value of about $80.

Despite his success as a rookie, Henry found himself playing only 21 games in 1954-55 before being sent to the American Hockey League to play for the Quebec Aces. Camille then played the entire 1955-56 period with the Providence Reds in the AHL before returning to the Rangers in the middle of the next season.

Henry played in the NHL from 1953-54 to 1969-70 with the Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, and St. Louis Blues. He was a teammate of Doug Mohns in Chicago for the last half of the 1964-65 season. Like Mohns, Camille has never won a Stanley Cup championship. However, he was awarded the Lady Byng Trophy as the most gentlemanly player in the league in 1957-58.

Throughout her career, Camille played in 727 regular season games. He scored 279 goals and assisted 249 for 528 points. In the Stanley Cup playoffs, Henry appeared in 47 games and added 18 points.

don mckenney

Although No. 35 in the 1954-55 Topps was Don McKenney’s rookie card, he played the entire 1953-54 season in the AHL with the Hershey Bears. Another product of the Barrie Flyers, McKenney became a regular for the Bruins in 1954-55. He played in the NHL through the end of the 1967-68 season with the Bruins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, and St. Louis Blues.

Don played in 798 NHL regular season games, scoring 237 goals and assisting in 345 for 582 points. He played 58 more games in the Stanley Cup playoffs, adding 47 points. McKenney was a member of the Maple Leafs in 1963-64 with Toronto winning its third straight Stanley Cup championship.

Like Camille Henry, McKenney once won the Lady Byng Trophy and took home the hardware in 1959-60 as a member of the Bruins. His rookie card also has the same value as Henry’s.

1954-55 best

The 1954-55 Topps game was the first NHL collection for the longtime baseball card producer. A common card from that game has a value of $40. There are 60 hockey cards in the collection with a book value of a complete set of $4,500. The most valuable card belongs to Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings.

The Los Angeles Dodgers posted a recent promo that featured a sketch of third baseman Justin Turner, who was decked out in a beret and robe while holding a paintbrush in front of an easel. Legend identifies Turner as “The Artful Dodger”, an allusion to a character in Charles Dickens’ famous novel, Oliver Twist.

For all of us who get the reference right away, here’s a comprehensive list of baseball players who share a name with a character from Dickens’s writings.

First baseman: Wally Pipp

Young Lou Gehrig replaced it for what was supposed to be one day, but history tells us the Iron Horse stayed there for the next 2,632 games. in the beautiful novel High expectationsPip was the protagonist who was bequeathed a fortune from an unknown benefactor.

Second Base: Jason Bates

He played five seasons for the Colorado Rockies in the 1990s while Charley Bates was a member of the gang of robbers in Oliver Twist.

Shortstop: Barry Larkin

The Hall of Fame shortstop spent his entire career with the Cincinnati Reds. Miss Larkins was the first love of David Copperfielda beautiful girl who ended up marrying a soldier in the book.

Third Base: Tommy Lastella

With a combined .284 average the past two seasons, he helped the Chicago Cubs win back-to-back NL West championships. When you drop the first letter of his last name, he matches the snobbish girl Pip falls head over heels for in High expectations.

Left field: Danny Heep

Uriah Heep was employed by Mr. Wickfield in David Copperfieldwhile the baseball player was a constant hitter for the Astros and the Mets during a ten-year career in the Major Leagues.

Center field: Fred Snodgrass

He spent nine years primarily with the New York Giants until he left the game in 1916, and Augustus Snodgrass appears in The Pickwick Papers as a member of the club named after the novel’s title.

Right field: Al Oliver

As if his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates wasn’t impressive enough, Oliver went on to join the Texas Rangers and capture the American League batting title. His last name, of course, is the first name of the young Mr. Twist in the title of the Dickens novel that became a huge hit on Broadway.

Catcher: Bill Plummer

by Dickens The cricket in the home focused on the Plummer family, and in the 1970s, Bill served as Johnny Bench’s backup at Big Red Machine.

Starting pitcher: Bob Sykes

He was a southpaw who played for both the Tigers and Cardinals in the 1970s and 1980s, while Bill Sikes was a boy Oliver Twist fought with but later befriended.

Relief pitcher: Hi, Jasper.

This right-hander who was part of the White Sox, Cardinals and Indians bullpens in the second decade of the 20th century, but Mr. Jaspers was the lawyer who eventually married the female lead in gloomy house.

HAS question of power It is the second book in the series. the chronicles of fire by Suzy Wright. preceded by Fire’s LordEast Question offers some answers in this volume, but hides several more in a sequel to come. If you want to take a trip to a fantasy land, full of adventure and romance, start the journey of the chronicles of fire. This book is just a technical stop on this fantastic journey.

While it is preferable that you read the first volume, the second volume is also strong enough to stand on its own. Before landing in Susi Wright’s fantasy realm, she equips him with a map and a crash course in Gaian philosophy, so he’ll have a sense of direction once he arrives. It is refreshing to note the abundance of female characters in the book. Some of them are present from the first volume, while others are presented now. They are quite intriguing and portray different visions of the Ideal Woman.

Humans cohabit the planet with Gaians and other fantastical races. Gaians are humanoids with superior perceptive powers and a few more magical tricks up their sleeves. However, there are also physical characteristics specific to Gaians, they have light-colored hair and eyes with a mystical glow that never fails to go unnoticed. New times find these two races living together in the safety of an Alliance and nurturing a new hybrid race, which proves to surpass the parents.

Early on, we follow one of the most promising young Gaian warriors, Xandor, on his quest to find and rescue other members of his race. His journey will result in finding and adding valuable members to his clan and to his life as well. Thus, the characters that inhabit the series emerge quickly. The tension in the air that they all breed forces the hand of their leader, Luminor, the Fire Lord, to act against a great evil that threatens to suffocate the new world order. And so they ride into battle against an unknown enemy fueled by an insatiable hunger for power.

HAS question of power is, without a doubt, a great book for young adults who love fantasy novels. The story is well written and the plot is easy to follow, it goes perfectly with the scent of spring. All in all, it is a refreshing read for people of all ages.

Marvin the Martian is an extraterrestrial character who stars in the Looney Tunes cartoon series created by Warner Bros. The character of Marvin was created by Chuck Jones and first appeared in the cartoon ‘Haredevil Hare’ in 1948. Originally, Marvin was called Commander X-2 and Mel Blanc voiced it. Over the years, Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, and Eric Goldberg voiced it. .

Marvin hails from the planet Mars and has a companion space dog named Commander K-9. He wears a red and green Roman soldier uniform and carries a small pistol throughout his endless battle for space territory within the universe. Marvin the Martian has planned and attempted to blow up and destroy Earth on many occasions with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator mainly because it blocks his view of Venus, however he is constantly outsmarted by Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny.

Marvin is well known for his oft-used quotes ‘Greetings earthlings’ and ‘Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be a momentous kaboom!’ The alien character has made appearances in many Looney Tunes animated television series and movies, including ‘The Hasty Hare’, ‘Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century’, ‘Hare-Way to the Stars’, ‘Mad as a Mars Hare’, ‘Spaced Out Bunny’, ‘The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show’, ‘Marvin the Martian in the 3D’, ‘Space Jam’, ‘Looney Tunes: Back in Action’ and ‘Bah Humduck!: Christmas of the Looney Tunes’.

Marvin the Martian has been a popular character in the Looney Tunes series of cartoons and movies and continues to entertain and amuse audiences today.

The Detroit Lions can be called the biggest losers of the season. And with a current record of 0 wins and 12 losses, they are indeed the worst team the NFL has ever seen. The Lions are now tagged with the title of the NFL’s losingest team and they blew every chance they got to win. This is probably the worst year for the Lions, even though they haven’t shown a stellar performance in decades.

The performance that the Lions are showing makes their fans really frustrated and disappointed. Although they have the most faithful fans, the question remains as to how these people put up with the poor performance that their team has been giving them year after year. Eventually, the kind of loyalty their fans give them will dwindle with how they lose game after game.

But there’s another reason Detroit is losing interest in the Lions, and it’s not because of the team’s losing status. It is also because of the depression that the economy is experiencing. In fact, many people associate the team’s losing status with the history of Detroit and its failing auto industry. And by chance, the team is owned by the Ford family. The same family that ran his business, the Ford Motor Company, ran aground.

The people of Detroit have grown tired of the team’s performance and don’t care as much as it used to. The few remaining Detroit Lions fans are leaving the games due to the NFL’s policy of not broadcasting if games don’t sell out. With the economy down, these fans have no money to waste on overpaid team owners and multi-millionaire players who don’t even perform at their best.

With the upcoming draft, the NFL is going to have to do something and start talking tough with the players. They will also have to resort to paying recruited players lower salaries. Fans don’t have enough money to pay roughly $100 for a game that can’t even get them out of their seats. Fortunately for the Ford family, as they get a free stadium, funded by the people of Michigan, but they make a lot of money on NFL TV plus licensing fees. No wonder winning isn’t at the top of his list.

You might ask, what’s in store for the Lions? The answer is as simple as nothing. If this team doesn’t pull together, their losing streak could last forever. Unless someone has some sense in their management and their players, they have very little chance of improving. But it’s never too late to do so, for glory’s sake and for the sake of their fans, the Detroit Lions should do something about how they’re playing their games. A victory is not that far away if the team and its management work together to seize the opportunity to win.

From Manning to Brady to Rex Ryan, the AFC will once again consist of close games every week. The Jets have made a number of moves to beef up their team, but is Mark Sanchez really ready to take them to the next level? Will Tom Brady get the New England Patriots back to the Super Bowl? Check out our 2010 AFC Division Predictions below.

AFC East – The Patriots will return to their winning tradition this year with a healthy Tom Brady. Once the season starts and the connection between Brady and Moss resumes, Randy Moss will shut his mouth and stop whining. Look for the Patriots to beat the Jets in a close race due to experience and a sophomore slump for Mark Sanchez.

AFC South – It would be very difficult to pick against Peyton Manning even with a rising Houston Texans team led by Matt Schaub. The Texans are this year’s sexy pick and we think they’ll find their way to the playoffs, but until Peyton isn’t Peyton, we like the Colts.

AFC North – By far the easiest division to predict. The Baltimore Ravens have provided a core of receivers for Joe Flacco to throw from Anquan Boldin, TJ Houshmanzadeh, Donte Stallworth and not to mention Derrick Mason. Combine that with Ray Rice in the running game and you have a solid offensive attack. Oh yeah, and Ray Lewis still leads this defense that some are questioning this season. Really? The Baltimore Ravens defense is being questioned. The Bengals will get better, but TO will only get you so far before they implode. Big Ben is out for 4 games for the Steelers so his chances will be slim by the time he returns so look to Baltimore to take the division.

AFC West – Although the Raiders have improved, we assume they are still the Raiders and will find ways to lose games. The Broncos will be decent, but after seeing how they finished last season, there’s no question they can win this division. Look for the Chargers to win the AFC West, also known as the worst division in football.

Wild Card – Jets and Texans

AFC Division Winner: Baltimore dethrones the Colts and returns to the Super Bowl for the first time since their 2000 Super Bowl win. Their defense has always been there and now they should have a potent offense to go with it.

American sports, like most American institutions, have a history of shameful racism, and this includes thoroughbred horse racing, as anyone who has scanned the insulting and stereotypical names of some racehorses of the decade will confirm. At the same time, one of the inspiring things about sports is that, sometimes at least, excellence triumphs even in the face of prejudice, and the history of American Thoroughbred racing will bear this out as well. The most storied race in American horse racing, the Kentucky Derby is especially notable in its early years for its importance as a venue for African-American jockeys. Here we take a look at some of the great African-American horsemen in history.

The first Kentucky Derby winner, in fact, was an African-American man, Oliver Lewis, who led Aristides to a two-length win (and an American record mile-and-a-half) that stunned onlookers. Aristides, after all, entered the race as a mere leader from Chesapeake, a highly favored stablemate who blew the race faster than you can say “Dean yell.” This surprised both the crowd and the rider, who sought the advice of the horse’s owner, HP McGrath. McGrath yelled “Go ahead!” And so Lewis did.

Lewis’s contributions to racing history don’t end with his victory in the Derby (or his near victory at Belmont that same year); at a time when ex-jockeys were still allowed to do so, he later worked for a bookie, developing a system for recording the results of past races which clearly laid the foundation for the Daily Racing Form system.

Only next to the career of someone like Isaac Murphy, a trailblazer like Lewis might seem secondary. The son of a Civil War veteran who fought -and died- for the Union Army, Isaac Murphy won the Derby three times, twice in a row -riding Buchanan in 1884, Riley in 1890 and Kingman in 1891- and was the first to achieve either feat. Another achievement for Murphy – winning the Derby, Oaks and Clark Handicap in one year – 1884 has yet to be equalled. Sadly, this racing phenom died of pneumonia at the tragically young age of 35, in 1896.

Kansas City-born Alonzo “Lonnie” Clayton won the 1892 Kentucky Derby by a nose, riding Azra. Most impressively, Clayton was a minor, only fifteen years old, and a relative newcomer to horse racing, having started as a practicing jockey in 1888 and winning the first victory of his career in 1890. He entered the Derby four times during his career, twice taking second and second place. once winning third in addition to that historic 1892 win. Other career highlights of his include a Churchill Downs crown in 1893 and a third-place finish at the Preakness in 1896.

In fact, several of the early Kentucky Derby winners were African-American. Among them is Erskine Henderson, riding Joe Cotton into the winner’s circle in 1885 after near misses (on other horses) in the 1882 and 1883 Derbies (where he placed ninth and seventh). We also find Apollo’s jockey in the 1882 Derby, Babe Hurd, a later steeplechase star, and, tragically, George Garrett Lewis, whose victory riding Fonso in the 1880 Derby is no consolation for his death, two months later, from internal injuries. caused by a month-long racing accident at the reported age of 18.

In fact, the list of African-American jockeys participating in the Kentucky Derby becomes more impressive the more we look at it. There’s Isaac Lewis, competing in every Derby from 1886 to 1889, including a win in 1887 aboard the Montrose. That’s not the impressive part: Later on the same day in 1887, he wins both Frank Fehr City Brewery Purse heats on a different horse, Brookful.

Finally, there is Marlon St. Julien, who joined this esteemed list by entering the 126th Kentucky Derby, after 79 years without an African-American runner in America’s most famous race. The jockey from Lafayette, Louisiana, was a late starter in horse racing: he had been a footballer, perhaps the least likely previous career of any jockey, but he changed his interest in the sport after his 11th year. He emerged from a tragic five-horse accident that, among other things, broke his sternum to race across the United States, including the inaugural 1997 season at Lone Star Park and at Fair Grounds in Louisiana.

Nearly 20 years before the hyped-up Inception focused on the dream phenomenon, Emir Kusturica directed Johnny Depp in the surreal comic fantasy Arizona Dream. The film was produced by Claudie Ossard (Delicatessen/Amélie) and is typical of the kind of bizarre auteur films Depp used to appear in regularly before finding mainstream appeal as a Disney pirate.

The plot, such as it is, follows the dreamlike adventures of Axel Blackmar (Depp), a drifter who has taken on the shadowy job of tagging fish for the New York State Department of Fish and Game. His cousin, aspiring actor Paul Leger (Vincent Gallo), shows up announcing that his uncle Leo (Jerry Lewis) is planning to marry his Polish fiancée Millie (supermodel Paulina Porizkova), a girl more than half his age and that he wants Axel to be the best he can be. men; Axel reluctantly accompanies Paul back to his hometown of Arizona.

In his best role since playing a version of himself in Martin Scorsese’s King of Comedy, Jerry Lewis stands out as Axel’s Uncle Leo; an infectiously optimistic successful Cadillac salesman and living testimony to the “American Dream” paradoxically racked by survivor’s guilt for causing the accident that killed Axel’s parents, convinces him to stay after the wedding and try to sell cars.

Axel’s first potential clients are the eccentric widow Elaine Stalker (Faye Dunaway) and her suicidal stepdaughter Grace (Lili Taylor). His brazen arrival sparks the interest of both Axel and Cousin Paul, whose gift of speech secures an invitation to dinner at the Stalker’s house. That afternoon; Here, screenwriter David Watkins (Novocaine) delivers one of the most jaw-droppingly hilarious surprise scenes I’ve ever seen, and from then on I was totally hooked.

Axel embarks on an adventure with Elaine, and despite his wacky demeanor and poor understanding of reality, this May-September romance is compelling and genuinely moving to watch, especially his attempts to build the flying machine that she uses. has always dreamed of. The film’s theme of the pursuit of dreams versus reality is thoroughly explored; Uncle Leo dreams of stacking Cadillacs high enough to reach the moon, Grace dreams of being reincarnated as a turtle, and Paul aspires to be a great actor by replaying his favorite movie scenes, providing one of the rarest scenes when he recreates the entire scene. Crop duster sequence from the Hitchcock classic North by Northwest for a local talent show.

Kusturica is clearly a master filmmaker and manages to maintain a dreamy feel throughout the film’s 142-minute runtime, it’s consistently funny but also has a haunting mystical quality that makes it engaging, and thankfully the release in French Blu-ray contains a DTS-HD. English 5.1 audio master track with forced subtitles for Raging Bull and The Godfather: Part II excerpts only, full 1080p picture quality is superb and 20 minutes that were cut from the theatrical release have been fully restored.

Arizona Dream is impeccably acted, and while the story and script have obviously had an element of improvisation, they are strong and stay true to their purpose of evoking the absurd and surreal quality of dreams, an element totally missing from Inception. by Christopher Nolan, the same could be said for the laughs of which there’s a plethora here as well, making it a must-see for fans of Depp’s earlier work.

Major League Baseball’s 2015 draft featured a name that has already set a record for the sport. Milwaukee selected a player whose name contains 32 letters, by far the longest ever selected in the draft.

The new member of the Brewery organization is Oluwademilade Oluwadimola Orimoloye, an outfielder taken in the second round. If he progresses and makes his way into the big leagues, Orimoloye will become the first African-born player to suit up for an MLB team.

While it may take a while for stadium announcers to get familiar with Orimoloye’s pronunciation, they should be fairly comfortable with the names of many of the other players in this year’s draft. A handful of them are sons of former major leaguers, which has been fairly common in past drafts.

However, what is unique in 2015 is the number of recruits who are close relatives of people who work for various team administrations. Here is a list of just over a dozen recruited players who are descendants of Major League club front office managers, managers or scouts.

Tucker Ward, right-handed pitcher

Drafted by Arizona in the 40th round, this recruit is the son of Diamondbacks scout Turner Ward.

Jake Pries, outfielder

Baltimore used the 37th round to recruit the grandson of Don Pries, a former scout and director of player personnel for the Orioles.

Jack Graham, second base

One round after trapping Pries, Baltimore walked away with the son of current field manager Brian Graham.

Tate Matheny, outfielder

If all goes well, this fourth-round pick from Boston will have a World Series battle against his father, St. Louis manager Mike Matheny.

Nick Lovullo, shortstop

Boston drafted this son of bench coach Tory Lovullo in the 34th round.

Cody Staab, outfielder

The Chicago White Sox used the 38th round to draft the son of scout Keith Staab.

Joseph Reinsdorf, second baseman

Owner Jerry Reinsdorf’s grandson went to the White Sox in the 40th round.

Tyler Nevin, third baseman

Colorado’s 15th-round pick is the son of Triple-A Arizona manager Phil Nevin, a former major leaguer remembered for his power and unusual hitting stance.

Cam Gibson, outfielder

The son of former Arizona manager Kirk Gibson should feel right at home in Detroit, which drafted him in the fifth round.

Sean Miller, shortstop

In the tenth round, Minnesota landed this son of a Houston scout of the same name.

Tyler Williams, outfielder

Minnesota also drafted the son of Twins scout Ted Williams, who was selected in the 26th round.

Drew Finley, right-handed pitcher

The son of the Padres’ personal player manager, Dave Finley, went to the New York Yankees in the third round.

Dante Ricciardi, shortstop

The Seattle Mariners took the son of Mets front office executive JP Ricciardi in the 39th round.

Mattingly Romanin, second baseman

Toronto’s 39t round pick is the son of Blue Jays baseball operations manager Mal Romanin.