(Lee Maye)(the fourth be with)(Yu Darvish)

I've had the idea for this post for almost a year. Last year I was watching a Yankees-Blue Jays game. My wife walked by and thought she heard the announcer say that Boba Fett was batting for the Blue Jays. That gave me the idea for matching up Star Wars characters with baseball players. I was able to think of some more player names that are similar to Star Wars character names. Some of these are closer matches than others. I just limited it to Star Wars characters that I have a card for, which is mostly just my old Return of the Jedi cards from when I was a kid. I'm sure there's a lot more from the newer movies and TV shows but I had to stop somewhere!

"I'm Luke Walker, I'm here to rescue you!"

"Consolo, captain of the Millennium Falcon . . ."

"I'm Lando Cepeda, administrator of this facility. And who might you be?"

"Governor Larkin. I thought I recognized your foul stench when I came on board."

"There you will learn from Koda, the Jedi Master who instructed me."

LoGray, the Ewok medicine man.

Droopy McCool was a member of Jabba the Hutt's palace band. Apparently his real name was Snit.

"This is my counterpart, Artoo-Ditmar."

"Obi-Wan Kozlowski? I wonder if he means old Ben Kozlowski?"

"We'll find Joba the Hutt and that bounty hunter . . . "

Qui-John Finn, who trained Obi-Wan Kenobi, played minor league baseball, and writes a baseball card blog.

Qui-John Finn was defeated by the dark lord Darth Maule.

Happy Star Wars Day!