the "baseball team"

I didn't assign positions. I'm assuming that Archie was probably a pitcher. I actually didn't have Saul, Fred, and Orrie in there. Maybe Fred would be a utility infielder? Isn't that the position allegedly given to the not-the-sharpest-tool-in-the-shed?

For what it's worth, here it is. Most of the names are actually made-up, or are shifted a couple of letters from actual names of actual biologists:

Calvin Johnson                                    

Arlen Sundblom                     

Marcus Kessler                                 

Theodore Horstmann               

Mickey Dressler                       

Jack Halston                          

Keith Newton                          

Stewart Pimler                          

Rex Stout                              

Archibald Goodwin             

Phineas Finn                            

Fritz Brenner                           

Merrit Fernald                          

Warren Wagner                                   

Maynard Smith                    

(You will note that Wolfe himself is not on the team. The owner, perhaps.)       

Maybe next year, considering the scam-spam I received yesterday, I should do a cricketing team staffed with Monty Python characters. (Mr. Gumby, for example). Though then I'd have to figure out a typical cricketer's salary, and report it in pounds or in euros.... 

I occasionally enjoy doing slightly silly problems on homeworks (or even exams - I used to do a Survivor-themed question on my ecology exam about optimal foraging and what would be the "optimal" food choice of a series of things (shoreline crabs, bird's eggs, lizards, or grubs) given that you had no tools or weapons. Hint: "grubs" is the correct answer (unless someone can make a very, very good case otherwise) because the amount of energy required to get them (and the amount of risk) is lower than most of those other things)