Pick a team, any team and are bound to find player’s whose father and or son played ML baseball and in some cases with the same team as the guy you rooted for or tolerated. Without taxing my feeble brain, I came up with a basic list of guys that played for the Cubs whose father or grandfather or son played ball.

This list is neither completark e nor made up of players that I liked. Bold indicates played for Cubs, If you are so inclined pick your favorite team, and if you are a twisted baseball nerd, compare those duos that played for the team.

Lennie Merullo (grandfather) Matt Merullo; Roy Smalley, Roy Jr, Joe Coleman Joe Coleman Jr and Casey Coleman 3 generations, Don Kessinger Keith Kessinger Grae Kessinger (3 generations) Bobby Bonds Barry Bonds, Randy Hundley Todd Hundley, Steve Swisher Nickie the Swish, Eric Young Ey Jr,, Gary Mathews Gary Jr, Dwight Smith Dwight Jr, Phil Nevin Tyler Nevin, Mark Leiter Mark Leiter Jr and Ivan DeJesus Ivan Jr.

As I said, it’s not a complete list, rather one or both of the players come to mind, and not always for positive reasons. Anyhow, have a wonderful Father’s Day! Several of these guys aggravated my Dad to no end.