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Why Did Giancarlo Stanton Change His Name?

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Giancarlo Stanton has become one of baseball's most recognizable names. The recently traded, prodigiously powerful slugger led the majors with 59 homer and 132 RBIs en route to winning the NL MVP award. Now that he's been traded from the Marlins to the Yankees and will be playing in under the New York media microscope, Stanton's name will almost certainly become even more ubiquitous.

However, the casual baseball fan may not know that Giancarlo Stanton was actually known as Mike Stanton throughout his high school and minor league days, and even through his first two years in the majors.