Nomenclature

[stoutfellow]

Now, that's odd. I'm reading Jack McDevitt's Odyssey, and there has just been a mention of a starship (one of many in the book) called the Chan Ho Park. It happens that I know of only one person by that name; he was a major league pitcher for a number of years, playing for, among others, the Padres, the Mets, and the EBE. As major league pitchers go, he was decent, sticking around for more than ten years. He wasn't, by any stretch, someone who'd have a starship named for him centuries in the future. (His only uniqueness, AFAIK, was that he was the first South Korean-born player to make it to the majors.)