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Now this is a worthwhile waste of time, if such a thing can be said to exist! Meet the Oracle of Baseball, companion to the more well known Oracle of Bacon. It's like Six Degrees of Babe Ruth.

I'm feeling pretty clever, because I found seven-step relationship between Texas 3B Hank Blalock, and dead ball era OF Dummy Hoy (incidentially, the only deaf-mute to play professional ball). For well-known players, I've apparently done pretty well. Go me! 

• Hank Blalock played with Rob Bell for the 2002 Texas Rangers
• Rob Bell played with Jose Rijo for the 2001 Cincinnati Reds
• Jose Rijo played with Tommy John for the 1985 Oakland Athletics
• Tommy John played with Early Wynn for the 1963 Cleveland Indians
• Early Wynn played with Cecil Travis for the 1947 Washington Senators
• Cecil Travis played with Nick Altrock for the 1933 Washington Senators
• Nick Altrock played with Dummy Hoy for the 1898 Louisville Colonels