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Madison Bumgarner Once Dated A Girl Named Madison Bumgarner

By Evan Massey

Oct 29, 2014; Kansas City, MO, USA; San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner heads to the dugout after retiring the Kansas City Royals in the fifth inning during game seven of the 2014 World Series at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 29, 2014; Kansas City, MO, USA; San Francisco Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner heads to the dugout after retiring the Kansas City Royals in the fifth inning during game seven of the 2014 World Series at Kauffman Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken-USA TODAY Sports /
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MLB and San Francisco Giants superstar Madison Bumgarner once dated a girl named Madison Bumgarner.

There have been plenty of strange stories in the sports world already this month, and there is a brand new one that came out today. San Francisco Giants superstar starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner once dated a girl that shared the same Madison Bumgarner name before he began dating his wife Ali.

From USA today Sports:

"Before he dated [his wife] Ali, he dated a girl named Madison Bumgarner (“No relation, I’m sure of it”). Kevin Bumgarner lives across the street from the Center Grove Baptist Church on Deal Mill Road in Hudson. In the cemetery adjacent to the church is buried an Adam Bumgarner. And a Barbara Bumgarner. And a Calvin Bumgarner, and a Delia Bumgarner, and on and on and on. Of the 305 interments in Center Grove Baptist Cemetery, 55 are Bumgarners, beginning chronologically with Michael Lee Davidson Bumgarner, who was born in 1832. His father, Thomas, was born in 1810 and is buried in nearby Granite Falls, one of 192 Bumgarners buried in Caldwell County. So many Bumgarners took root here that this stretch of Deal Mill Road came to be known about a hundred years ago as Bumtown. In addition to the Madison Bumgarner he dated at South Caldwell High, there is another girl named Madison Bumgarner enrolled now in the school."

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It isn’t every day that this type of story comes out. Needless to say, it’s a very cool story and it’s one of the only stories of its type that will come out. There are plenty of strange stories each and every year, but this one might very well have them all beat.

Obviously this whole relationship was probably a bit awkward for friends and family, and new acquaintances would find it strange as well. It isn’t very often that a couple dating has the first name or last name in common, much less having both in common.

Bumgarner has been an absolute beast over the last few seasons for San Francisco, and he not only has the skill on the field but the personality and stories off the diamond. There aren’t many starting pitchers that could rival this story, and it is certainly one of the stranger ones that we’ve seen in quite some time surrounding Major League Baseball.

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