Pete Compton
Baseball
Born in San Marcos, Texas, Sporting Life magazine once described Compton as "a good-natured, easy-going Texan". Unsurprisingly, he is the only player in MLB history with the real first name of "Anna". (As well as "Pete", Compton would also use the name "Bash", a shortened form of his middle name, and quite fitting for a baseball player.) After three seasons in the minors (beginning as a 19-year-old in 1909), Compton hit .352 for Battle Creek, Michigan based Battle Creek Crickets in the Class C Southern Michigan League; that earned him a ticket to the St. Louis Browns, where he hit .271 in 28 games.
Compton spent all of 1912 in St. Louis, splitting time in left and right field and also logging 34 games as a pinch hitter. Compton could hit -- he had a solid .280 average that year -- but his defense was questionable, committing nine errors in left field, fourth-worst in the AL despite spen…
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