As AmericanaFest spreads out across Nashville next week, you’ll see lineups all over town featuring artists whose names or monikers bear striking similarities to the folksy nomenclature prevalent in pro baseball. Among our list of 30 names, 15 belong to artists performing at this year’s AmericanaFest, and the other 15 belong to ball players (some living, some not). Can you separate the sluggers from the songsmiths without searching? Good luck!
Special thanks, as ever, to Nashville record store staffer Tyler Glaser — a lifelong baseball fan who also runs the appropriately named Instagram account @baseballplayerswithgreatnames — for his help rounding up the primo player handles.
Check yourself with the answer key.
- Creekbed Carter Hogan
- Pi Jacobs
- Floyd Youmans
- Coco Montes
- Kimmi Bitter
- Boob Fowler
- Kashus Culpepper
- Coleman Jennings
- MJ Lenderman
- Slippery Ellam
- Malin Petterson
- Topsy Hartsel
- Peter Crow-Armstrong
- Bendigo Fletcher
- Piano Legs Hickman
- Tray Wellington
- Ivy Olsen
- Bubba Chandler
- Holby Milner
- Big Richard
- Dell Darling
- Soup Campbell
- Uncle Lucius
- Kade Hoffman
- Mackey Sasser
- Grayson Jenkins
- Paisley Fields
- Jewel Ens
- Kiely Connell
- Steele Walker
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