You Can Change Player Names in Real Life?

[Fishercat]

http://minorleagueball.com/story/200...870#commenttop

The odds of their #1 prospect having the same name as Shoeless Joe Jackson's actor in Field of Dreams have to be so darn low...

Heh, it's pretty funny, and my favorite movie to boot.

[Dam8610]

Anyone can change their name, but he did not change his. Liotta the pitcher is actually a distant cousin of Liotta the actor.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/NASA...=.jsp&c_id=cws

The tragedy in New Orleans puts fame and fortune in perspective for Liotta. For the record, Ray Liotta III, the pitcher, is related to Ray Liotta, the famous actor -- he is a distant cousin on his dad's side of the family. The irony is not lost on the pitcher that his cousin, the actor who his dad met at a couple of family functions years ago, portrayed one of the more infamous characters in the history of the organization for whom he currently is trying to earn a living.

[Fishercat]

I figured as much. I just thought it was weird.