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09-16-2004 07:24 AM |
Baseball Nicknames
Posted By: <b>Gilbert Maines</b><p>Last night as I was thumbing thru a ’93 pre-war SCD price guide, I noticed lots of nicknames listed for those players shown in the n173 set. I am not sure that their nicknames are actually shown on the cards, but if not, the author of this list chose to incorporate them into this guide for unidentified reason. In any case, I find this grouping currently interesting, and I thought Id share it – you may too.<br /><br />The nicknames seem to fall into several types, such as those which indicate a title or job, including:<br />Cap Anson<br />Doc Bushong<br />Monk Cline<br />Duke Farrell<br />King Kelly<br />Deacon McGuire<br />Orator Jim O’rourke<br />Farmer Vaughn<br />Farmer Weaver<br />Deacon White<br /><br />Those which indicate an animal –<br /><br />Fido Baldwin<br />Oyster Burns<br />Mouse Glenn<br />Bug Holliday<br />Doggie Miller<br />Old Hoss Radbourne<br />Toad Ramsey<br />Chicken Wolf<br /><br />Others seem to relate to a players age:<br /><br />Kid Baldwin<br />Pop Schriver<br />Dad Clark<br />Pop Corkhill<br />Buck Ewing<br />Kid Gleason<br />Kid Madden<br />Kid Nichols<br />Uncle Robbie Robinson<br />Cub Stricker<br />Pop Tate<br />Buster Tomney<br /><br />Several indicate hair, and lack thereof.<br />Bald Billy Barnie<br />Red Ehret<br />Silver Flint<br />Silver King<br />Blondie Purcell<br /><br />And other appearance related nicknames:<br /><br />Handsome Boyle<br />Jumbo Cartwright<br />Icebox Chamberlain<br />Big Ed Delahanty<br />Long John Ewing<br />Shorty Fuller<br />Pebbly Jack Glasscock<br />Little Mac Macullar<br />Smiling Al Maul<br />Little Nick Nichol<br />Big John Reilly<br />Long John Reilly<br />Jumbo Schoeneck<br />Little Bill Sowders<br />Adonis Terry<br />Big Sam Thompson<br />Stump Weidman<br /><br />Character traits?<br /><br />Honest John Boyle<br />Grin Bradley<br />Cupid Childs<br />Hub Collins<br />Dude Esterbrook<br />Hardie Henderson<br />Moxie Hengle<br />Wild Bill Hutchinson<br />Cutrate Irwin<br />Leech Maskrey<br />Honest John Morrill<br />Truthful Jim Muthrie<br />Rowdy Jack O’Connor<br />George “Dandy” Wood<br />Patsy Tebeau<br />Silent Mike Tiernan<br />Sleepy Townsend<br />Foghorn Tucker<br />Rip Van Haltren<br />Wild Bill Weidman<br /><br />And those nicknames which appear to be geographically motivated.<br /><br />California Brown<br />Hick Carpenter<br />Parisian Bob Caruthers<br />Frenchy Genins<br />Egyptian Healey<br />Texas Wonder Hoffman<br />Germany Long<br />Princeton Charlie Reilly<br />Yank Robinson<br />Germany Smith<br /><br />Of course there are plenty more in this set. And Im sure that I have misinterpreted many of the above. It sure would be interesting to find out about the origin of lots of these nicknames. And it would be an interesting way to collect a part of this set (and maybe others).<br /><br />Its only cards.<br /><br />Gil<br />
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