In what promises to be a very short series, here is the first installment of "Baseball cards that I like".
I'm not much of a baseball fan, if there is a bat and a ball, for me the game has got to be cricket. However, I am a fan of some of the colourful names that seem to emerge from America's Pastime. Perhaps none more so than today's focus:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8R-2LPvVeS8-6iY9z3Vsi8BmOhDO7ZE270F7aVxd5sDXwWro8V_av4A8eIrwamiUSoXzvqnFsEqS95ENvmjRGUAZedsWmJjZVfWgr-TerPnSJoNFZE0YBmvGxIdOuPswKKDryugcPOA/s400/1985ToppsKuntzRusty073Large.jpg)
My last name is 'McCracken', which draws its share of sniggers. Yet I really have to wonder how Rusty makes it through each day? You'd struggle in Australia with that name, I'd wager!
I'm not much of a baseball fan, if there is a bat and a ball, for me the game has got to be cricket. However, I am a fan of some of the colourful names that seem to emerge from America's Pastime. Perhaps none more so than today's focus:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8R-2LPvVeS8-6iY9z3Vsi8BmOhDO7ZE270F7aVxd5sDXwWro8V_av4A8eIrwamiUSoXzvqnFsEqS95ENvmjRGUAZedsWmJjZVfWgr-TerPnSJoNFZE0YBmvGxIdOuPswKKDryugcPOA/s400/1985ToppsKuntzRusty073Large.jpg)
My last name is 'McCracken', which draws its share of sniggers. Yet I really have to wonder how Rusty makes it through each day? You'd struggle in Australia with that name, I'd wager!
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My favourites are the "Cockburn" family, oops sorry, "Coburn"...