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In a comment last Sunday, I discussed what I call “Battery Bros,” pitchers and catchers with the same last name, whether or not they were actually related. The two dominant pairs of Battery Bros were actual brothers; Mort and Walker Cooper (108 games in which Walker caught Mort) and Wes and Rick Ferrell (HOFer Rick caught Wes 106 times.) Overall, there are 54 such pairs, and most of them are unrelated, like #3 all-time: Steve and Jeff Reed. Pudge Rodriguez is a part of three different pairs, having caught in his career Rich (29 times) Wandy (15 times) and Henry (9 times).