Funny MLB Baseball Player Names
 

My apologies for the lowbrow humor, but here are some of my favorite MLB player names:

Best Actual Names:
1) Urban Shocker
2) John Malarkey
3) Orval Overall
4) Hugh High
5) Boof Bonser
6) Razor Shines
7) Pete LaCock
8) Johnny Dickshot
9) Jack Glasscock
10) Antonio Bastardo
11) Tony Suck

Best Nicknames:
1) “Pickles” Dilhoeffer
2) “Sugar” Cain
3) “Lil” Stoner
4) “Oil Can” Boyd
5) “Granny” Hamner
6) “Snuffy” Stirnweiss
7) “Stubby” Clapp
8) “Bud” Weiser
9) “Coco” Crisp
10) “Peek-A-Boo” Veach
11) “Rusty” Kuntz
12) “The Only” Nolan
13) Dick Pole
14) “Mysterious” Walker
15) “Buttercup” Dickerson
16) “Vinegar Bend” Mizell
17) “Phenomenal” Smith
18) “Pussy” Tebeau
19) “Chicken” Hawks

Sadly I think you forgot a few

1. Dick Pole (pitcher)


And if you go into other sports there is
Dick Butkus
General Booty
Ben Gay
Fabian Assmann
Dick Trickle (Race Car)

I listed Dick Pole as a nickname, since few are actually named Dick

Milton Bradley
Boog Powell

Dick "Dr. Strangeglove" Stuart
"Goose" Goslin

According to this it is his real name

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...poledi01.shtml

Or at least that is what I have seen it as

As the link you provided shows "Full Name: Richard Henry Pole"

Baseball Reference lists widely used nicknames at the top of player pages, such Oil Can Boyd

I stand corrected. Some how I missed it.

Where's Cannonball Titcomb?

Don’t forget me
 

Go find this card!

My 2 favorite nicknames for Baseball players:

Mike 'The Human Rain Delay' Hargrove

Jeffrey 'Ole Penitentiary Face' Leonard



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Some of my favorites:

Phede Lambke
O'Koyea Dickson
Dovydas Neverauskas
Nikco Riesgo
Asher Wojciechowski
Heinie Meine
Tommy Toms
Red Badgro
Ozzie Van Brabant
Razor Ledbetter
Lars Taylor-Tatsuji Nootbaar
Skye Bolt
Tarik Skubal
Kermit Kowalk (1950s minor leaguer)

Don't forget the Hargrave brothers Pinky and Bubbles.

Francesco Stephen Pezzolo aka "Ping Bodie"

"Ping" for the sound his 52 ounce bat made when it struck the ball, "Bodie" for the town in California where he was born, now a famous gold mining ghost town.

Clarence "Cuddles" Marshall Mainstay of the St. Louis Browns.

and an old name from my hometown Buffalo Bisons hockey team:

Harry Dick

Poor guy lived 80 years with that name.

NFL, the dynamic father son duo:

Carlester Crumpler

I know someone named Harold Beavers...his wife's name is Patricia.


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Keep them coming some great names

With today's pitch clock, I would love to see how Hargrove's routine would look speeded up.

With today's pitch clock, I would love to see how Hargrove's routine would look speeded up.

Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson.

Always a fan of a man that embraces the name "Puddin' Head" so much that he changes his signature -

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Love these names not sure if they are all politically correct but interesting and entertaining

I was just thinking about Dick Pole today. If anyone is interested, there are multiple game used jerseys on Ebay right now. That's the mark of a true fan.

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Van Lingle Mungo

Clem Labine

"Teddy Ballgame"

"Kiki" Cuyler

Edgar Renteria "The Barranquilla Baby"

Nick "Tomato Face" Cullop

Don "The Gerbil" Zimmer

Brett "The Golden Retriever" Jackson

That name always conjured up an image of a west coast hot rod builder or a surfboard shaper for some reason.

Or maybe it is the infamous hit by Jerry Mungo in 1970 that's triggering me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

My 1939 Play Ball...

There was a minor league outfielder from 1949 to 1954 named K Chorlton. Yes, K was his given first name.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish.

Always liked these 2 guys names, flow of the tongue well. Quintanilla was a local favorite when he played with Modesto.

say no more

Former Tigers shortstop Coot Veal. He was born in Deepstep, Georgia (great name for a shortstop's hometown) in 1932 and is buried in Macon, Georgia -- home of what IMO is the greatest pro team name ever: the Macon Whoopees (Southern Hockey League, 1973-74).

Ha! That is a great team name.

“Heinie” Sand, “Heinie” Meine, “Heinie” Manush

Heinie Groh

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I always liked Baby Doll Jacobson and Ice Box Chamberlain.

Gaylord Perry. Not that there's anything wrong with it.

Sibbi Sisti

Luke Appling "Old Aches and Pains"
Charlie Gehringer "The Mechanical Man"
Burleigh Grimes "Ol Stubblebeard"
Carl Hubbell " The Meal Ticket"
Pepper Martin "The Wild Horse of the Osage"
Herb Pennock " The Knight of Kennett Square"

I always felt Mickey Klutts was an unfortunate name for a ballplayer.

My favorite of all time, mentioned in the OP, is Phenomenal Smith. Classic!

Two given names from the 2009 Bowman Draft Picks set:

Seth Schwindehammer

Sequoyah Stonecipher


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Lou "The Mad Russian" Novikoff is a classic.

Sequoyah Stonecipher is a gorgeous name.

I've also noticed that recent MLB drafts have features some pretty interesting names at first overall:

2015 - Dansby Swanson
2019 - Adley Rutschman
2020 - Spencer Torkelson

With a name like Swackhamer, he should have been a power hitter, but he never made it out of the minors.

289. Guffawbulous
Having a name (Eddie Stanky, Heinie Manush, Johnny Pesky, Tom Tresh, Pete LaCock, e.g.) that causes every single collector alive to giggle a little bit whenever they run across one of his cards.