By baseball name, I mean the person who's name you hear and makes you think about baseball. Really catchy names (e.i. Homer Bush, Coco Crisp, Pee-wee Reese, "Oil Can" Boyd, the "Rocket" Roger Clemons, "Sultan of Swat" Babe Ruth, "Big Hurt" Frank Thomas, " The Bash Brothers" Jose Canseco and Mark McGuire, and many others.
2007-01-02 02:36:53 · 39 answers · asked by Aaron 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
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2007-01-02 03:01:39 · answer #1 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above names were great but also let's not forget "Bulldog" Hershiser who of course looked nothing like the name Lasorda gave him.
Also
A-Rod, Purse Carrier- Alex Rodriguez
I-Rod, Pudge- Ivan Rodriguez
K-Rod- Francisco Rodriguez
D-Train- Dontrelle Willis
El Gato- Tony Pena
The Crime Dog- Fred McGriff
The Hit Dog- Mo Vaughn
Finger Waver- Rafael Palmerio
One Dog- Lance Johnson
Wonder Dog- Rex Hudler
The Oakland Out Man- Dennis Eckersley
Pudge- Carlton Fisk
The Straw that Stirs the Drink- Reggie Jackson
Downtown Ollie Brown
Dirty Al- Alan Gallagher
Sugar Bear- Larvelle Blanks
Ankleball Moss
Doctory Cyclops- Mss Manning
Packinghouse Adams
Cool Papa Bell
Gold Tooth- Lenny Pearson
Sparkplug Reese- also known as Speed Boy Reese
Showboat Thomas
Devil Wells- he could hit the ball like a devil but his mama refused to go to games where he was called Devil
Satan Taylor
Big Florida- Ted Trent
Poosh 'Em Up- Tony Lazzeri
The Sultan of Swat- Babe Ruth
The Crown Prince of Swat- Lou Gehrig
The Rajah of Swat- Rogers Hornsby
The Rabbi of Swat- Moe Solomon- no I'm not making this up, see Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
Big Poison- Paul Waner
Little Poison- Lloyd Waner
Malachi Jeddidah Kittridge- his real name
Pops- Willie Stargell
The Cobra- Dave Parker
Clubhouse Cancer- Gary Sheffield
The Next Teddyballgame- Mike Greenwell
Yaz, The Leaning Tower of Pizza- Carl Yaztremski
ManRam- Manny Ramirez
Dice-K- Dietsuke Matsuzaka
The Big Cat- Andres Gallaraga
Three Finger Ojeda- Bob Ojeda after a gardening mishap
The Flamingo- Tom Brennan, who certainly inspired fear in hitters with that name
Mr. Jackie Robinson- Jackie Robinson
Big D- Don Drysdale
Big K- Sandy Koufax
The Raven- Ron Perrinoski
Really Fast Guy- Maury Wills
Toy Cannon- Jimmy Wynn
The Penguin- Ron Cey
Fat Fernando- Sid Fernandez- As a prospect projected to be the next Fernando Valenzuela except larger.
Tom Niedenfeur- The Black Mamba
The Tornado- Hideo Nomo
The Sheriff- Kevin Malone- even bad baseball GMs get names
Gameboy- Milton Bradley
Tomato- Olmedo Sanez
Game Over- Eric Gagne
Sammy- Takashi Saito
Nancy Drew, Princess, JD Ghost, DL Drew, and Loser- JD Drew. In my opinion the most catchy player nickname was Nancy Drew because his own Dodger teamates reportedly called him Nancy to describe the great intensity level of his play.
Also the infamous Buddy Biancalana, who David Letterman even made famous by repeating his name over and over.
Also don't forget the
a) 70's Reds "Big Red Machine",
b) the Pittsburg Pirates 80s bullpen "The Arson Squad" for blowing saves and pouring gasoline on fires instead of putting them out,
c) the 80's Dodgers "Fearsome Fivesome" which included Franklin Stubbs, Sid Bream, John Shelby, Greg Brock and Pedro Guerrero which didn't exactly strike fear into pitchers because four played the same position,
d) even the 1988 Dodger bench had a name called the "Stuntmen"
e) the 90's Astros' "Killer B's"
f) the Reds' bullpen "Nasty Boys",
g) the 00's "Steroid Five"
h) the 00's Yankees "Evil Empire" as named by the Red Sox front office
g) and of course the most illustrious and catchy name of them all, for the team that finally felled the Evil Empire... "The Boys of Summer"- The 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers.
2007-01-02 20:04:48 · answer #2 · answered by romanseight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, "The Babe" is probably the one name best associated with ANY sport, so that would be it.
Some names just sound like they should be stars - like Mickey Mantle or Willie Stargell.
It's interesting that in the old days, it was pretty common to have nicknames for players that would be considered incredibly rude today. Like Three-Finger Brown, who actually had lost 2 fingers in a farming accident when a kid. Or a few players nicknamed "Rube" because they were ignorant country bumpkins.
My favorite real baseball name was Van Lingel Mungo, just because it is such an unbelievably strange name.
and BTW, Catfish Hunter (great nickname, great player, great man) wasn't given that name by his dad but byCharlie Finley, the owner of the A's, in order to add some character to a quiet player. He even made up a story for Hunter to tell people about when he was a kid and used to miss dinner because he was out fishing all the time.
2007-01-04 00:35:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Donny Baseball & Batman - Don Mattingly
Teddy Ballgame - Ted Williams
Charlie Hustle - Pete Rose
Yankee Clipper - Joe DiMaggio
Yogi - Yogie Berra
The Hawk - Andre Dawson
Donny Damon - Captain Caveman
Ron Guidry - Louisiana Lightning
2007-01-02 03:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Coco Crisp
2007-01-02 04:10:02 · answer #5 · answered by popular_bond 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coco Crisp
2007-01-02 03:20:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coco Crisp
2007-01-02 02:38:12 · answer #7 · answered by motorcitysmadman2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like "Charlie Hustle" for Pete Rose.
He was my favorite player, but I'm very disappointed with the way he has handled himself since he was banned from baseball.
Whitey Ford gave Rose the nickname when the Yankee pitcher saw Rose run to first base after drawing a walk in a spring training game.
Whether Pete went 4 for 4, or stuck out five times, he always gave 110% and was well worth the price of a ticket.
2007-01-02 07:30:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course this is subjective.....but I think in the 19th and early 20th century the nicknames may have been the best. Among my favorites are Mike "King" Kelly, Robert "Death To Flying Things" Ferguson, Charles "Piano Legs" Hickman, Fred "Crazy" Schmit and Bill "Wagon Tongue" Keister. More recently, the best are Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, Razor Shines, minor leaguer Pork Chop Pough and BillSpaceman" Lee
2007-01-02 06:23:40 · answer #9 · answered by bigdanabbott 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Gas House Gang
or
Razor Shines
2007-01-02 06:42:06 · answer #10 · answered by Eho 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I definetly think that Rollie Fingers is the most catchy baseball name. He was a Relief Pitcher for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Atheletics. He many times won the Rawlings Relief Award for his outstanding closing pitching.
2007-01-02 03:46:32 · answer #11 · answered by Raphie C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋