In one of the coolest pieces of news this month, Jose Bautista, the former Blue Jays slugger perhaps most famous for his legendary “bat flip” has been immortalized in an unconventional sense. Bautista, a native of the Dominican Republic, has had a new species of beetle named after him.
According to the Canadian Press (via Sportsnet), Bob Anderson, a Canadian entomologist of the Canadian Museum of Nature, has christened a new species of beetle Sicoderus bautistai in honour of “Joey Bats”.
A Canadian Museum of Nature scientist has named a new beetle species identified in the Dominican Republic after former Toronto Blue Jays superstar Jose Bautista.