Giant Eugenio Velez Dons Jersey Reading 'San Francicso'

Oh no, Eugenio!

​In what will hopefully not be a defining moment in his career or the San Francisco Giants' season, reserve outfielder Eugenio Velez entered yesterday's game wearing a jersey emblazoned with the name of a city that doesn't exist. That'd be "San Francicso."

"No, no, I didn't know," he told The Associated Press by cell phone from the team bus on the way to the airport. "That's the first I've heard."

"Increible!" the Dominican-born utility player said in Spanish.

Those hoping to find some kind of cosmic connection between a misspelled jersey and the imminent doom of the Giants -- who have opened their season with three consecutive wins -- are stretching a bit too hard to read the tea leaves. This kind of stuff happens more often than you'd think:

Last year, not one but two members of the Washington Nationals paraded onto the field wearing this. Also that year for our capital's team: A player wearing a jersey with an upside-down "N."

In fact, here's a full recounting of past jersey failures. Our favorites: The name of the greatest hockey player who ever breathed is misspelled; Joe Carter at the bat for "Torotno"; and one of our armed forces football teams runs into a spell-checking problem. Guess which one?