What Next? Contest: Robot Baseball - August 14, 2009

Click here for results of last week's What Next? Contest: Recession Book

Results: You batted this one out of the park. After a report that Japanese inventors had created robots that pitched, batted, and played baseball with amazing skill, we asked you for the name of the first all-robot baseball team. In addition to endless recombinations of androids/steroids—The NoRoids, The Aster-roids, the Roid-Free-Roids—you pitched us:

FIRST PRIZE: RoBoSox

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Sean McNew, Roswell, GA (first of many similar entries)

SECOND PRIZE: The New York Clankees

Harry Halloran, Wauwatosa WI (first of many)

THIRD PRIZE: The Minnesota Tins

Lisa Thiel, Phoenix, AZ

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

The Boston Lead Sox

Richard Davis, Aztec, NM (and others)

The Oakland Ai’s

Brade Dore, Rocklin, CA

Bums of Steel

Joan Bullock, Wesley Chapel, FL

The Iron Giants

Jack Neugebauer, Blue Bell, PA (and others)

BALL-E

Nancy Case, Poughkeepsie, NY (and others)

The Metsons

Jason Jokerst, Columbia, MO

The Texas Instruments

Mark Kornick, Somers, MT

The Boys of Spring(s)

Joe Cutliffe, Palos Verdes Estates, CA

The Yankee Chippers

Mort Schwartz, Brentwood, CA

The Washington Rationals

Mayo Oppenhimer, Atlanta, GA

The Seattle Autopilots

Mark Benson, Waltham, MA

The Aluminum Batters

Peter Allman, Lincoln, NE

The No-Brainers

Judy North, Wausau, WI

The Cybertooth Tigers

Dale Ashworth, San Francisco

The Ballpark Frankensteins (Nickname: Ballpark Franks)

Thomas Marsilio, Wilkes-Barre, PA

The New York Yankees

Nik Maier, Minneapolis (and many others!)