One bat is called Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver and the other is Hrunting. Dickey, an avid reader, said that Orcrist came from “The Hobbit.” Hrunting — the H is silent, Dickey said — came from the epic poem “Beowulf”; it is the sword Beowulf uses to slay Grendel’s mother.
Well that’s kind of awesome, and predictably R.A. Dickeyish. I think if I were a Major Leaguer, though, I’d give my bat a really common everyday name like “Steve” or something. Credit for this idea goes to my wife, who recently suggested “Richard,” in a discussion of good potential dog names (we’re not getting a dog or anything we were just talking about dog names).
Come to think of it, I keep two bats in the trunk of my car for Brooklyn baseball and they are still pathetically anonymous. What am I doing? OK, here we go: The 32″ maple bat is Larry and the 33″ ash bat is Ron. I have a 1.181 OPS in two games since switching to Ron, incidentally.
Tedquarters 