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OT: Player nicknames
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Second fun topic of the day for me. As I was looking through some cards, I found an Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
I was thinking that his nickname is so ingrained with him that you would at least have to think for a bit if the nickname was wasn't included. Like,"I got an Ed Jones rookie." "Who is Ed Jones?"; "Too Tall"; "Oh, of course".
Can we come up with a list of other players like that?
I was thinking that his nickname is so ingrained with him that you would at least have to think for a bit if the nickname was wasn't included. Like,"I got an Ed Jones rookie." "Who is Ed Jones?"; "Too Tall"; "Oh, of course".
Can we come up with a list of other players like that?
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Bimbo Coles
Fat Lever
Tree Rollins
Spud Webb
Popeye Jones
Muggsy Bogues
Doc Rivers
Junior Bridgeman
Cadillac Anderson
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
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Or Babe Ruth
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Smokey Burgess
Rocky Bridges
Whitey Herzog
Yogi Berra
Rusty Staub
Hack Wilson
Ki Ki Cuyler
Dummy Hoy
Eddie "Eat, Drink and Be" Murray
Rafael "Emerson, Lake and" Palmeiro
Andy "Merchant of" Benes
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Ryno - Ryne Sandberg
Wimpy - Tom Paciorek
The Juice - Julio Cruz
The Hawk - Andre Dawson
Pudge - Calrton Fisk (The first and real Pudge)
Rock Raines
Walter big train johnson
Billy white shoes johnson
Just a couple I like
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How about Casey Stengel and Satchel Paige.
Also, it seems too many people here didn't actually read the op. The op asked for players whose nicknames have superseded their given names in identifying the player. I don't know of anyone referring to Frank Thomas as "Big Hurt Thomas", or Andre Dawson as "Hawk Dawson, or Mark Fidrych being called "Bird Fidrych".
On the other hand, Sparky Anderson's given name is George. If anyone referred to him as George Anderson, none of us would know who the person was talking about. That is what the op asked for.
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Of course, many of us know his real first name. But I wouldn't want to run the the risk of being clubbed if I said it close enough for him to hear it.