League Updates

Headline of the day: “The White Sox already had a Burr and Hamilton, so they went ahead and added Jon Jay”

We need more headlines in the EFL like the one the White Sox won today:

The White Sox already had a Burr and Hamilton, so they went ahead and added Jon Jay

You would think in a league with a many degrees as this one, one of us would have had the vision to collect a team of founding fathers.  Jay is a free agent, Billy Hamilton is available, too, plus a Franklin, a Morris, a Rutledge, a Butler, a Lee, a Carroll, a Williamson, several Wilsons, three Martins, a guy whose first name is Sherman and last name is Johnson, and four Adamses.  MLB is missing, for the moment, any Washingtons, Jeffersons, Gerrys, Hancocks or Dickinsons, but there are plenty of others to go around.
So what’s the big deal about a measly three founders on the White Sox, when this is the very first era in which you could have a Poncedeleon — an entire explorer’s name in just the last name of a modern player? MLB has a Soto, but not a de Soto. This is also a Colon, which is Columbus’s real name. (Actually, every single one of us has a colon.)
Come to think of it, baseball either has right now or has had at least one Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Cleveland, Wilson, Harding, Hoover, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.
Some of these were not prominent.  Charlie Harding played only in 1913.  There also was a Bill Garfield who played in 1889-90.
So far, according to Baseball Reference, MLB is missing Polk, Fillmore, Arthur, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan, Obama, and Trump — although Arthur and Truman have been player’s first names.
(And Rob, despite appearances,  I haven’t forgotten my promise to spend two days on assessment. It looks like they will be Thursday and Friday.)