Most Unique Player Nickname (O/T)

[mintacular]

Just received a "Little Poison" Waner card, that's my vote. I would be interested to hear some others, especially pre-war ones.

[Anthony S.]

"Lady" Baldwin springs to mind.

"Phenomenal" Smith was a pretty cool one, too.

[Brian Van Horn]

"Wahoo" Sam Crawford after his hometown.

[3-2-count]

Player from the past - “The Splendid Splinter” (Ted Williams)
Player from today - "The Big Unit" (Randy Johnson)

[Brian Van Horn]

Sammy "Babe Ruth's Legs" Byrd

[brickyardkennedy]

William Edward Conroy.

"Conroy picked up the nickname "Widow" for his solicitous concern for younger boys on his sandlot team and was known as "Wid" all his long life in organized baseball."

I know it's post-war, but I admit to a certain fondness for Walt "No-Neck" Williams. : ^ )

[jrhatchjr]

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[Kawika]

Archive Vaughan

[SteveMitchell]

Some of my favorites are:

Bob Ferguson: Death to Flying Things (which has been picked up and reused by Seattle's announcers for Ichiro Suzuki - and probably others in other venues)

Big Poison and, of course, Little Poison for the Waners

Art The Great Shires - because he really wasn't

Arlie Latham: The Freshest Man on Earth

Wee Willie Keeler (and, again, I think Ichiro): Hit 'em where they ain't

The Human Rain Delay, Mike Hargrove, was painful to watch

Following Hargrove, Whitey Ford (The Chairman of the Board) seems fitting

Walter Boom Boom Beck

Amos Rusie: The Hoosier Thunderbolt and,

Wahoo Sam Crawford

These are only ten of dozens more favorites that could be recounted!

[brickyardkennedy]

After hours of intensive research into this topic , I've come up with the heretofore unknown (to me) player, Eddie "Glass Arm" Brown. Not a name suggestive of longevity in the game.

[PolarBear]

I can't think of a more antithetical name for a boxer.

[jerrys]

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[gashouse34]

How bout "Ain't that a Dazzy" Vance and the ol' Diz Dean are a couple fav's


Oil Can Boyd maybe?