Though some baseball truths — the travesty of the designated hitter, that much of what we perceive as pitching is actually defense and that there’s no such thing as clutch hitting — may not be self-evident, at least those enumerated in the Declaration of Indepedence — that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness — still are. So, with this Sunday being the anniversary of our great nation’s independence, we’d like to honor the bold, right-thinking men who claimed those truths and gave birth to the greatest nation the world has ever known, not the least because of its contribution of baseball.

Fifty-six delegates eventually signed the declaration. Many of them lent their names to future baseball players, so we present our Declaration of Independence Signers Team: players whose names include all or part of a name of one of the declaration’s signatories.

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