The cool players nicknames.

Options
MGLICKER
MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
in Sports Talk
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.

«1

Comments

  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Denton True Young....better known as the Cyclone, Cy for short.
  • sparky64
    sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Sparky Lyle

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

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Refrigerator Perry.
  • sparky64
    sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    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?"

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    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.

  • SDSportsFan
    SDSportsFan Posts: 5,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Lefty Grove

    Lefty Gomez

    Chief Bender

    Rabbit Maranville

    Blue Moon Odom

    Catfish Hunter


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

    Sleepy Floyd.

    A-Roid.

    image
  • SDSportsFan
    SDSportsFan Posts: 5,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    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
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    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.
  • sparky64
    sparky64 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Yogi Berra

    Tiger Woods

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

    My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress

  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    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.
  • AC000000
    AC000000 Posts: 267 ✭✭✭
    Options
    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
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Blue Moon Odom.

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

    The Worm.
  • CNote
    CNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
    Options


    << <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 >>



    Mr George Kenneth Griffey Jr says hello to this conversation.
  • DarkStar
    DarkStar Posts: 483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Greg "With a Spoom" Gagne
    get it?

    There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who do not.

  • Brick
    Brick Posts: 5,003 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Bucky F. Dent
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
    http://www.unisquare.com/store/brick/

    Ralph

  • Cubby
    Cubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Options
    Spaceman Lee


    BTW: Cubby=Cub Fan
  • SanctionII
    SanctionII Posts: 13,188 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    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.
  • Cubby
    Cubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Options
    The Korean Zombie


    BTW: Cubby=Cub Fan
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Boomer Esiason.......How did I forget him?
  • Dave99B
    Dave99B Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Rod Smart.....'He Hate Me'

    Dave
    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Say Hay Kid---Willie Mays
    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • SDSportsFan
    SDSportsFan Posts: 5,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    How about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?


    Steve
  • SDSportsFan
    SDSportsFan Posts: 5,232 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Muhammad Ali


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

    But I think that was his real name. image
  • pocketpiececommems
    pocketpiececommems Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    He Hates Me from the old football league that I can't remember
    Pocketpiececommemoratives

    Lafayette Grading Set
  • Cubby
    Cubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Options
    "Iceman" Gervin


    BTW: Cubby=Cub Fan
  • Cubby
    Cubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Options
    "Mean" Joe Greene


    BTW: Cubby=Cub Fan
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    How did we miss Mr. October, Reggie Jackson. Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks and The Big Unit, Randy Johnson.
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    and the recently retired, Hammer of God!
  • JoeBanzai
    JoeBanzai Posts: 12,854 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    "Killer" Killebrew
    Capital Punisher-Frank Howard
    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Renaldo (Skeets) Nehemiah

    1980's Olympic Hurdler and for a short time NFL receiver.

    Ken "the Hawk" Harrelson.

  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    and Satchel Paige.
  • GB5HOF
    GB5HOF Posts: 590 ✭
    Options
    Hall of Famer....Dick "Night Train" Lane
  • JoeBanzai
    JoeBanzai Posts: 12,854 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    Carl "Moose" Eller
    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • Justacommeman
    Justacommeman Posts: 22,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Options
    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
    Walker Proof Digital Album
    Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options


    << <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.
  • 3BoyzTrading
    3BoyzTrading Posts: 798 ✭✭
    Options
    Minister of Defense, Prime Time, The Nigerian Nightmare, Moose, any defensive lineman named Tank and someone already mentioned The Refridgerator.
  • Goomba78
    Goomba78 Posts: 172 ✭
    Options
    "Never Nervous" Pervis Ellison
    Greatly overpaying for a 2000 Fleer Showcase Tom Brady PSA 10
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Kenny "The Snake" Stabler was a pretty good QB in his day.
  • baseballfan
    baseballfan Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Options
    The Intimidator
    Scooter
    The Answer
    The Truth
    Reggie pop Lewis


    Love nicknames
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    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.
  • baseballfan
    baseballfan Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Big six
    Big train
    Big papi
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • Cubby
    Cubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Options
    Billy "The Whopper" Paultz


    BTW: Cubby=Cub Fan
  • Cubby
    Cubby Posts: 2,096 ✭
    Options
    Dave "The Hammer" Schultz


    BTW: Cubby=Cub Fan
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    W³adek "Killer" Kowalski
  • corncobb
    corncobb Posts: 516 ✭
    Options
    Deacon Jones
    Mad Dog Curtis
    Concrete Charlie
    Fred the Hammer
    Hacksaw Reynolds
    The Stork
  • MGLICKER
    MGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Lights Out Toney
  • PSASAP
    PSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    Options
    Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch
    Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins
    David "Skywalker" Thompson
    Charlie "King Kong" Keller
  • PowderedH2O
    PowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Options
    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.
    Successful dealings with shootybabitt, LarryP, Doctor K, thedutymon, billsgridirongreats, fattymacs, shagrotn77, pclpads, JMDVM, gumbyfan, itzagoner, rexvos, al032184, gregm13, californiacards3, mccardguy1, BigDaddyBowman, bigreddog, bobbyw8469, burke23, detroitfan2, drewsef, jeff8877, markmac, Goldlabels, swartz1, blee1, EarlsWorld, gseaman25, kcballboy, jimrad, leadoff4, weinhold, Mphilking, milbroco, msassin, meteoriteguy, rbeaton and gameusedhoop.

Categories