Best baseball player nicknames in mlb history?

Question

"Ducky" Medwick, "Charlie" Hustle, "Granny" Hamner, "Shoeless" Joe, "The Flea" Freddie Patek, "Big Unit", "Iron Horse" "Lou Gehrig", "Splendid Splinter" Ted Williams, "Sultan of swat' babe Ruth. the best i ever herd was 1930's Pepper Martin's "the wild hose of the osage".

Which was the best you ever herd?

Answer 1

Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez

Answer 2

Ha, I loved "Latrine Hawkins"

Answer 3

John Rocker the raciest lol

Answer 4

I thought this list was pretty good:

http://www.bofads.com/stories/sports.htm

Answer 5

Dork Ruth?

Dork Cobb?

Dork Speaker?

Dork Alexander?

Put Dork in front of any great ball player's name.

Answer 6

I miss the days when players had cool nicknames, like Doctor K and Oil Can Boyd and the Mad Hungarian and Dr. Strangeglove. Forget anything as poetic as the Splendid Splinter; we don't even bother to call lefties "Lefty" anymore. Granted, not all old-time nicknames were winners: I'll give you one guess how "Fat" Freddie Fitzsimmons and Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown got theirs. But Jeff "Bags" Bagwell? We can do better, people.

My favorite will always be shoeless joe...i'm sure he always wore shoes on game day.

Answer 7

Frank "The Big Hurt" Thomas

Answer 8

alfonso "thunderhands" soriano. tim mccarver used that term during a cubs-dodgers game a while back.

Answer 9

cc sabathia " fire ball "

d. matsuzaka " the monster "

Answer 10

Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd

Answer 11

Fred "Crime Dog" McGriff

Greg "Mad Dog" Maddux

Answer 12

im a cards fan, so i guess ill throw out "Dizzy" Dean, Stan the Man, and Red

Answer 13

Dude, you listed some good ones...  how about

Joltin Joe DiMaggio

Tommy LaSorda tagged his smallish pitcher "The Bulldog" (Orel Hershiser)

and gave him the confidence to win a world series with L.A.

They called Pedro Bourbon the Rubber Man.  He was a strong pitcher from the Dominican (I believe) who would warm up by throwing the ball to the roof of the Houston Astrodome, and you know how high that is...his arm was rubber, it was forever.

Steve Sax was tagged "Saxy" by the ladies because of his good looks.

Ron Cey was called the "Penguin" because of his walk.  He was under 5' 10" with less than 5% body fat.  Unreal.

And last but not least...it hasn't hit the news yet, but he was just traded from San Diego to the Astro's, Randy Wolf, who has an entire fan club who follow him everywhere, they are called the Wolf-pack, Randy's nic-name is Wolfman, left-handed pitcher and a very cool dude.  The music they played as he walked to the mound was perfect, I just wish I could remember the name of it.  Sorry.  

Hope this adds to your collection.

Mike

Answer 14

"Prince Albert"

Answer 15

Mike "Moonman" Shannon

Johnny "Ugly" Dickshot (I swear to FSM I am not making that up, Google it if you don't believe that's his real name)

"Double X" Jimmie Foxx

Paul "Big Poison" Waner, and his brother Lloyd "Little Poison" Waner

The Dean brothers, "Dizzy" and "Daffy"

Pete Rose "Charlie Hustle"

“Old Tomato Face” Gabby Hartnett

“Piano Legs” Charlie Hickman

Leo "The Lip" Durocher

Richard "Stubby" Clapp

Johnny Lee "Blue Moon" Odom

"Black Jack" Jack McDowell

Willie "ETs Stunt-Double" McGee (ok, that's not a real one, but it should be)

Answer 16

Mitch Williams "Wild Thing"

Lenny Dykstra "Nails"

Garry Mathews "Sarge"

Answer 17

stan the man or josh hamilton "the natural"

Answer 18

Physco!! Steve lyons, Boston Red Sox! Fox Sports for a while!

Answer 19

Bob "Death To Flying Things" Ferguson

Hugh "Losing Pitcher" Mulcahy

Babe.

Answer 20

Shoeless Joe, or how bout the always classy, and the most used AROD. When ever he is talked about, people use AROD you  dont ever say his real-name, even the yankee announcers. OR how bout Babe for George Herman RUth

Answer 21

We must give Chris Berman of ESPN his due here.  He has come up with dozens of great nicknames that come from the given name, a very creative series.  My favorite of his was Bert "Be Home" Blyleven.  Also, Chuck "New Kids on" Knoblach and Larry "Satin" Sheets, just to recall a few.