Nicknames were not as PC back in these good old days:
Look at all the Heinie's running around
Examples are
Heinie Manush
Heinie Meine
And for the weight conscious amongst us:
Fatty Fothergill
And of course
Slim Sallee
Babe Ruth has his own coterie of nicknames;
Sultan of Swat; Bambino, etc
Lou Gehrig:
The Iron Horse; Buster
And a couple good modern ones that told about the players
"Dirty" Al Gallagher; who wanted to spell out Alan Mitchell Edward George Patrick Henry Gallagher anyway
and
"Sudden" Sam McDowell
More as I think of them
