Happy Birthday Charlie Root. Charlie Whom, btw?

[Patrick Tracanelli]

For some time I believed that Charlie Root was somehow related to the 
baseball guy, C. H. Root, and it had some sort of story in this name, 
chroot, etc. But the CHRoot baseball buy was born on March 17, and today 
I found out:

19 Jun  Charlie Root <root at FreeBSD.org> born in Portland, Oregon, United 
States, 1993

So, whats the story? The origin of the name? Did someone actaually 
existed who was called like that, other than the CHRoot pitcher?

-- 
Patrick Tracanelli