Nicknames help make Baseball the National Pastime
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!
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