Bill Wambsganss is a relatively obscure name for the casual baseball fan, as his claim to fame is becoming the only unassisted triple play in World Series history when he did so in 1920.
On Sunday night and Monday morning, he became more widely known thanks to a «succession» theory that emerged after the series finale of the critically acclaimed MAX show.
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Bill Wambsganss, second baseman for the Cleveland Indians. (fake images)
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After the ending where Tom Wambsgans became CEO and beat out any of the rival Roy family to take the reins of the company, Nameberry editor-in-chief Sophie Kihm theorized that Tom’s fate Wambsgan was set in stone thanks to a bit of history about Bill Wambsganss.
The theory was that Tom Wambsgans eliminated all three of his opponents when he sealed the deal to become ATN CEO on the show. He hit his own unassisted triple play in the process as Kendall, Roman and Shiv Roy were eliminated from the CEO race.
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Matthew Macfadyen attends HBO’s «Succession» season 4 premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on March 20, 2023 in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
As the theory took off, Sports Reference president Sean Forman wrote that Bill Wambsganss’ Baseball Reference page was increasing its traffic.
Like fans of the show and baseball., they would generally flock to his page, they would realize that there was nothing too prominent about the player. He played for the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, and Philadelphia Athletics before retiring after the 1926 season. In the series that turned the unassisted triple play, the Indians would beat the Brooklyn Robins.
However, Frank Rich, executive producer of «Succession,» told Slate in an email that the character’s name was chosen before the first season was filmed.
Bill Wambsganss of the Cleveland Indians poses for a portrait before an MLB game during the 1920 World Series against the Brooklyn Robins circa October 1920 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York. (Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images)
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«If memory serves, we were looking for something off key that would be awkward to say/pronounce, befitting a character who comes as a stranger to the Roy world,» Rich added.