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The cool players nicknames.

MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
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Great nicknames where many or most folks did not know the real name.

Boog Powell.

Gates Brown...for the Detroit Tigers fans.

Magic Johnson.

Goose Gossage.

...add to the list.

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Denton True Young....better known as the Cyclone, Cy for short.
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sparky Lyle

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Refrigerator Perry.
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chi-Chi Rodriguez

    Dizzy Dean

    I love nicknames. Used them all the time growing up.
    My kids, not so much.

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Love the nicknames. All of my friends have them. I occasionally have to stop and think of their real names.

    Too Tall Jones......Most knew his first name to be Ed but great handle just the same.

    Rocket Ismail......and a rocket he was.

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lefty Grove

    Lefty Gomez

    Chief Bender

    Rabbit Maranville

    Blue Moon Odom

    Catfish Hunter


    Steve
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Oil Can Boyd.

    Sleepy Floyd.

    A-Roid.

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  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not nicknames, but.....

    How many people know that Tom and Nolan are not Seaver's and Ryan's first names?

    They're their middle names.

    Their first names are George and Lynn.


    Steve
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    I knew that Ryan's first name was Lynn but not Seaver's first name.

    Rocky Marciano.....actually Rocco Francis Marciano so close enough.

    Babe Ruth.......Guessing that more that 20% of America today would not guess George.
  • sparky64sparky64 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yogi Berra

    Tiger Woods

    "If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Haystacks Calhoun......guess you could name every wrestler, but he was my favorite.

    Cha Cha Muldowney........Shirley was her given name but she ran with the boys at the top level of Drag Racing.

    Tug McGraw......would have to Google his first name.
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    Teddy Ballgame
    Hammerin' Hank
    Joltin Joe
    Shoeless Joe
    Cool Papa Bell
    Piano Legs Hickman
    Big Papi
    Sudden Sam McDowell
    Duke Snider
    Big Poison
    Chipper Jones
    Mookie Wilson
    Tiger Woods
    Magic Johnson
    Whizzer White
    Too Tall Jones
    Crazy Legs Hirsh
    Iron Mike
    Pacman Jones
    Broadway Joe
    Boom Boom Geoffrion
    Rocket Richard
    Dr J
    Wilt the Stilt
    Pistol Pete
    Sugar Ray Robinson
    Sugar Ray Leonard


    Least Cool Name: "Dummy" Hoy
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Blue Moon Odom.

    Charlie Hustle.........assuming that he has not been banned form this forum.

    The Worm.
  • CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭


    << <i>Not nicknames, but.....

    How many people know that Tom and Nolan are not Seaver's and Ryan's first names?

    They're their middle names.

    Their first names are George and Lynn.


    Steve >>



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    Greg "With a Spoom" Gagne
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    Bucky F. Dent
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    Spaceman Lee


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  • SanctionIISanctionII Posts: 12,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From pro hoops back in the day:

    1. Black Jesus - aka Walt Fraiser;

    2. World B. Free - aka Lloyd Free;

    3. Slick Watts - aka (don't recall his first name) Watts;

    4. Silk - aka Keith/Jamal Wilkes;

    5. Luke Skywalker - aka David Thompson; and

    6. Sugar Ray - aka Michael Ray Richardson.
  • CubbyCubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    The Korean Zombie


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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Boomer Esiason.......How did I forget him?
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    Rod Smart.....'He Hate Me'

    Dave
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    Say Hay Kid---Willie Mays
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  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?


    Steve
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Muhammad Ali


    Steve
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    I.M. Hipp......

    But I think that was his real name. image
  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,870 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He Hates Me from the old football league that I can't remember
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  • CubbyCubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    "Iceman" Gervin


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    "Mean" Joe Greene


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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    How did we miss Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks and The Big Unit, Randy Johnson.
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    and the recently retired, Hammer of God!
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    "Killer" Killebrew
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    Renaldo (Skeets) Nehemiah

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    Ken "the Hawk" Harrelson.

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    and Satchel Paige.
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  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sleepy Floyd

    One of my favorite monikers will always be Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson. Instant heat

    Also in the late 70's Michigan had a hoops star named Joel "Windex" Thompson as he could clean/wipe the glass

    MJ
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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Sleepy Floyd

    One of my favorite monikers will always be Vinnie "The Microwave" Johnson. Instant heat

    Also in the late 70's Michigan had a hoops star named Joel "Windex" Thompson as he could clean/wipe the glass

    MJ >>



    You most likely remember "Shoes" Huffman, he played with Magic as Michigan State.
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    Minister of Defense, Prime Time, The Nigerian Nightmare, Moose, any defensive lineman named Tank and someone already mentioned The Refridgerator.
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    "Never Nervous" Pervis Ellison
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    Kenny "The Snake" Stabler was a pretty good QB in his day.
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    The Intimidator
    Scooter
    The Answer
    The Truth
    Reggie pop Lewis


    Love nicknames
    Fred

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Might have been Ernie Harwell that mangled Mickey Stanley's name in the heat of a play in the late 1960's

    He was called Stickey Manley for a while after that.
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    Big six
    Big train
    Big papi
    Fred

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    Billy "The Whopper" Paultz


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    Dave "The Hammer" Schultz


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    W³adek "Killer" Kowalski
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    Deacon Jones
    Mad Dog Curtis
    Concrete Charlie
    Fred the Hammer
    Hacksaw Reynolds
    The Stork
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    Lights Out Toney
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    Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch
    Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins
    David "Skywalker" Thompson
    Charlie "King Kong" Keller
  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    While all of these are great nicknames, only a small percentage fit the requirements that the OP mentioned. He said nicknames in which most people did not know the player's real name. So Boog Powell, Yogi Berra, Gates Brown, Sparky Lyle, Dizzy Dean, Oil Can Boyd, etc all fit. I doubt that Say Hey Kid, Iceman, Mr. October, Killer, and Moose (and many others listed here) are players that few people know the real name of the player, or if they are the kind of nicknames in which they were used more than the player's actual name. For example, Goose Gossage is one where I think a lot of people know "Rich", but at some point nobody called him that anymore, so "Goose" sort of became his first name. So, younger fans might only know him by that. I would also use Leonard "Truck" Robinson as an example of this. I remember him as Len or Leonard with the Bullets, but when he was with the Jazz and Suns (and was good), he was always just "Truck". So, newer fans at that time might not know him as Len. Just my two cents.
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