Fun Team Game

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I was wasting more time at work procrastinating when I came up with a fun variation on the nicknames team game. This time, the nickname has to be totally separate from the player's real name (not a diminutive or alternative, e.g., no Hank or Sandy or Jimmy) AND has to appear on a baseball card AND you have to ID the issue where it appears AND the nickname has to replace the player's given name on the card front (so no Willie "Puddin' Head" Jones cards). Here goes:

C: Yogi Berra (1954 Topps)
1B: Whitey Lockman (1947-66 Exhibit)
2B: Cookie Rojas (1971 Topps)
SS: Pee Wee Reese (1956 Topps)
3B: Pie Traynor (1928 Exhibit)
RF: Babe Ruth (1926-29 PC Back Exhibit)
CF: Duke Snider (1954 Topps)
LF: Lefty O'Doul (1926-29 PC Back Exhibit)
P: Cy Young (T206)
P: Whitey Ford (1961 Topps)
P: Spud Chandler (1947-66 Exhibit)
RP: Sparky Lyle (1969 Topps)
Manager: Casey Stengel (1965 Topps)

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Posted By: Greg Ecklund

C: Mickey Cochrane (1933 Tattoo Orbit)
1B: Babe Dahlgren (1941 Play Ball)
2B: Larry Lajoie (1940 Play Ball)
SS: Arky Vaughan (1939 Goudey Premiums R303-B)
3B: Pepper Martin (1934-36 Diamond Stars)
OF: Kiki Cuyler (1936 Goudey)
OF: Happy Felsch (1919-21 W514)
OF: Riggs Stephenson (1933 DeLong)
SP: Preacher Roe (1952 Topps)
SP: Chief Bender (1916 M101-4)
SP: Bucky Walters (1939-46 Salutation Exhibits)
RP: Goose Gossage (1984 Donruss)
Mgr: Kid Gleason (E121 American Caramel)

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Posted By: Texas Ted

C: The Horse Danning 1941 Play Ball
1B: Buck Walters 1941 Play Ball
2B: What 1939 Abbott and Costello
SS: Arky Vaughan 1941 Play Ball
3B: Pinky May 1941 Play Ball
OF: Stormy Weatherly 1941 Play Ball
OF: Soupy Campbell 1941 Play Ball
OF: Indian Bob Johnson 1941 Play Ball
OF: Ducky Medwick 1936 Goudey Wide Pens
P: Duke Derringer 1941 Play Ball
P: Red Ruffing 1941 Play Ball

This team doesn't need a manager, but is a little weak at second.

Ted
He who so shall, so shall he who!

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Gotta have a rotation of Daffy, Dizzy and Dazzy; with Ducky DHing.

Dizzy Trout = 52T39
Daffy Dean = 40PB156
Dazzy Vance = 33G2
Ducky Medwick = 35DS66

Catching is Joe Ginsberg 58T67

Outfield of:

Pete Reiser 52T189
Jim Rivera 54T34
Gus Bell 52T170

Infield:
Tookie Gilbert 52T61
Pete Runnels 52T2
Billy Martin 52T175
Felix Torres 63T482

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Posted By: Dave Williams

How about the most famous nickname ever....

1948 Leaf (or should we say 1949) - and probably several much earlier...

Honus Wagner - AKA John Peter Wagner

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Posted By: Scott Forrest

"Honus" is a derivation of "Johannes". It would be interesting to see what was actually on Wagner's birth certificate.