HOF Friday - The Newest GSNHOF Nominee is Napoleon Einstein

Napoleon Einstein is an Indian cricketer.  I think he's still active, but it's really hard to tell given that I know nothing about Cricket...so these stats just confuse me.  Some things I learned about Napoleon Einstein (and life in writing this post include):

-  The Einstein part is named after Albert Einstein - according to Napoleon Science runs in their family and his Grandfather once wrote a letter to Einstein (with a reply!) so Einstein meant a lot to them.

- The Napoleon part comes from his Dad...so it's not actually a direct reference to Napoleon Bonaparte (or any other Napoleon) like I originally figured.

- Per Wikipedia regarding both names, "In this Indian name, the name Napoleon is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Einstein."  So I guess his first name is Einstein...neat.

Some things I did not learn for this post:

- Anything about Cricket.

I also found two videos.  The first one is a video explaining where the name came from (a rehash of what I wrote, or rather what I wrote was a rehash of the video).  The second is a rap battle between Einstein and Napoleon Bonaparte done with xtranormal.  It's xtraweird.

Video 1

Video 2

Einstein will join Seth Schwindenhammer on the Current Voting Ballot (more than two years after Seth was first nominated.

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