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In what is sure to be the runaway leader for our annual “DDP hit whose name sounds most like a Pokémon” award, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies baseball player John Wockenfuss has died aged 73. He joins Tom Weiskopf as a US athlete in this update with a career marked by tempestuous behaviour, including chucking stones at fans. That all changed when an evangelist preached from the locker room and converted Wockenfuss to born-again Christianity, for which he adopted a more tranquil demeanour and an unorthodox batting stance that improved his performance on the field. Wockenfuss was diagnosed with dementia in 2018, though TBF if you were roped into evangelism, your mind was soup already. Above all else, what a name, which is why he’s on the DDP as a unique for weird names assemblage Rolls Off The Tongue.
John Wockenfuss
27 February 1949 – 19 August 2022, aged 73
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