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Best baseball player name, EVER!
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How about Hall of Famer Robert "Hoot" Gibson.
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I was always partial to Al "The Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky.
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Hugh Ambrose "Eeyah" Jennings, Nellie Fox, Boojum Wilson, Chippy Britt, Charles "Ol' Hoss" Radbourne, "Turkey Mike" Donlin, "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, "Wahoo" Sam Crawford, "Vicious Vic" Harris, "Mule" Suttles, "The Yankee Clipper".
Has anyone read "The Tumult and the Shouting" by Grantland Rice? He is responsible for a lot of nicknames of famous athletes and teams.
Richard
Has anyone read "The Tumult and the Shouting" by Grantland Rice? He is responsible for a lot of nicknames of famous athletes and teams.
Richard
Chipper Jones.
or Wild Thing
or Rusty Kuntz or Mookie Wilson or Cap Anson
or Wild Thing
or Rusty Kuntz or Mookie Wilson or Cap Anson
While he may not be my favorite player, I always thought the name Rollie Fingers was kind of cool.
Growing up in Detroit, I was fond of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. Again, not my favorite player, but a cool nickname.
Growing up in Detroit, I was fond of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. Again, not my favorite player, but a cool nickname.
Red Sox/ White Sox Carlton "Pudge" Fisk
Come on guys lets keep this one going. James "Catfish" Hunter
Albert Walter "Sparky" Lyle
Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith better known as "The Wizard of Oz" - best damn shortstop I ever saw!
Osborne Earl "Ozzie" Smith better known as "The Wizard of Oz" - best damn shortstop I ever saw!
Wilver Dornell "Willie" Stargell. My all-time favorite. The late 70s was a great time for Pittsburgh sports (even though everything else in the region was going to... ---------)
Yea, you Morgantown boys are Pirate fans but the Huntington crowd goes for the Red Legs. How about Tom "Terrific" Seaver.
HACK WILSON
awesomeness.
awesomeness.
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Bucky "F__king" Dent has been a long-time favorite of mine.
Wasn't Dave Kingman's nickname "Kong?" Any Met fans here?
Wasn't Dave Kingman's nickname "Kong?" Any Met fans here?
Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin
Rollie Fingers (Pitcher)
Luis Tiant (another pitcher, I always liked his name, and that little spin move he did before the delivery)
Luis Tiant (another pitcher, I always liked his name, and that little spin move he did before the delivery)
oh, and check it out...
Fidrych also did an Aqua Velva television commercial after the 1976 season.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fidrych
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