Celebrity Name Chain

Doug · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 07:39

Babe Ruth - One of the greatest pitchers of the early 20th century.

retsinab · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 08:15

Walter Johnson, another pretty fair early twentieth century pitcher! Not quite the offense player as was the Babe, but better pitching stats: (2.36 lifetime era, 417 wins)

com6063 · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 12:16

Jerry Orbach

tinyamali · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 13:23

Jay Jay Okocha...Nigerian Footballer

Doug · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 14:32

Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez - Cuban pitcher who defected to the U.S. aboard a raft, was signed by the Yankees in mid-1998 and pitched them to a World Championship.

tinyamali · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 14:41

Cesc Fabregas...Spanish International and Arsenal (Soccer)

retsinab · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 14:48

Frank Robinson, another baseball Hall of Famer who was known as a Gamer (Oh, wait! This isn't the rhyme thread) :roll:

tinyamali · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 14:58

Didier Drogba...Ivorien International and Chelsea (Soccer)

LASaxman · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 15:01

David Letterman - American TV personality

Doug · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 15:12

Leonard Maltin - movie critic

tinyamali · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 15:13

Wole Soyinka...Nigerian Nobel Prize Winner (Literature)

Doug · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 15:18

Sammy Hagar

tinyamali · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 15:30

Asafa Powell...Ex. 100m World Record Holder (Jamaica)

LASaxman · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 16:26

Pat Nixon - Wife of President Richard Nixon

retsinab · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 16:35

Neville Brand, actor

LASaxman · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 16:50

Bobby Fischer - child prodigy and world champion chess master.

Doug · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 17:08

Forrest Sawyer - American broadcast journalist and documentarian

retsinab · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 17:18

Suzanne Somers

eilie · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 17:56

JMJ

Santa Claus

Marg

LASaxman · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 19:01

Claus von Bülow - famous murderer

eilie · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 19:42

JMJ

Bing Crosby

Marg

retsinab · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 19:58

Carmen Miranda

LASaxman · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 20:02

Miriam Makeba

retsinab · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 20:31

Sadly, Miriam Makeba died November 10, 2008

Manu Dibango (Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player who developed a musical style fusing jazz and traditional Cameroonian music.)

LASaxman · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 21:16

retsinab wrote:

Sadly, Miriam Makeba died November 10, 2008

I didn't know that.

Dollar Brand - another well known South African musician, aka Abdullah Ibrahim

retsinab · **Posted:** 12 Dec 2008 21:32

Bakithi Kumalo, South African bassist who played with Paul Simon's group during the recording sessions of the pop star's landmark 'Graceland' album in 1985.

(One of my all-time favorite albums, I might add.)

tinyamali · **Posted:** 13 Dec 2008 00:32

retsinab wrote:

Bakithi Kumalo, South African bassist who played with Paul Simon's group during the recording sessions of the pop star's landmark 'Graceland' album in 1985.

(One of my all-time favorite albums, I might add.)

Doctor Kumalo...Ex. South African International (Soccer)

eilie · **Posted:** 13 Dec 2008 17:53

JMJ

Kenny Rogers

Marg

retsinab · **Posted:** 13 Dec 2008 18:11

Robert Stack (Eliot Ness in another life!)

eilie · **Posted:** 13 Dec 2008 19:39

JMJ

(Fr.) Sydney McEwen

Marg

LASaxman · **Posted:** 13 Dec 2008 22:31

Mackenzie Phillips

tinyamali · **Posted:** 14 Dec 2008 00:47

retsinab wrote:

Robert Stack (Eliot Ness in another life!)

Would that be in the Serial "Another Life"?

Chidi Imoh....100m World Junior Athletics Champion (1986), Nigerian

retsinab · **Posted:** 14 Dec 2008 07:44

tinyamali wrote:

retsinab wrote:

Robert Stack (Eliot Ness in another life!)

Would that be in the Serial "Another Life"?

Chidi Imoh....100m World Junior Athletics Champion (1986), Nigerian

(No, in the old TV series about G-men fighting crime during prohibition called "The Untouchables." Loosely based on the story of a real-life G-man named Eloit Ness.)

Ingrid Bergman

tinyamali · **Posted:** 14 Dec 2008 11:23

com6063 · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 07:33

Pete Rose

Doug · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 07:40

Rudolph Giuliani - Former mayor of New York City

com6063 · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 09:50

Gerry Adams

Doug · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 10:01

Anson Williams - a.k.a. Potsy Weber

tinyamali · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 11:17

Wangari Maathai...Nobel Prize Winner (Kenya)

LASaxman · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 11:22

Margaret Whiting - American popular singer of the forties and fifties.

tinyamali · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 11:33

Will Smith

com6063 · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 12:07

Samuel L. Jackson

Seamas O Dalaigh · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 14:27

Joyce Grenfell

tinyamali · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 14:39

Julie Andrews

tinyamali · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 14:41

Seamas O Dalaigh wrote:

Joyce Grenfell

..didn't see that..

Gordon Brown

Doug · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 16:15

Bobby Bonds - Pretty good baseball player, though not as good as son Barry.

LASaxman · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 16:20

Doug wrote:

Bobby Bonds - Pretty good baseball player, though not as good as son Barry.

So let's make Barry Bonds next on the list.

Doug · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 16:24

Billy Blanks - creator of Tae Bo

LASaxman · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 16:26

Doug wrote:

Billy Blanks - creator of Tae Bo

Aside: I used to work with Billy's sister-in-law.

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Doug · **Posted:** 15 Dec 2008 16:31

LASaxman wrote:

Doug wrote:

Billy Blanks - creator of Tae Bo

Aside: I used to work with Billy's sister-in-law.

Bobby "Blue" Bland

Aside: I saw Bobby Bland perform with B.B. King in 1999.

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