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Originally Posted by darwinbulldog
My great-grandfather who played minor league ball acquired the same nickname for the reason you assumed.
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Ex-pitcher Walt Masterson told me that Joe DiMaggio had the nickname "Fishhooks" among players due to the fact that he never reached into his pockets to pick up a tab, as if he was afraid there were fishhooks in there. True story. I wonder if an element to that has to do with Joe D's work with his family on the docks of San Francisco.