My colleague Ken Gurnick appears to have broken that story on dodgers.com, which you can read at the link below. Russell has several middle names, one of which is his mother’s maiden name, Jeanson, and he has decided to put that initial on the back of his uniform this season as a tribute to her.

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090129&content_id=3784288&vkey=news_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la