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11-04-2018, 10:07 AM
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Why are there so many pitchers nicknamed "lefty" but not a single one called "righty"?
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11-04-2018, 04:03 PM
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11-04-2018, 07:46 PM
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George Brett? Don't recall a nickname.
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11-04-2018, 08:10 PM
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Good call on Clemente and Koufax, Brian.
Although it didn't really exist during his playing years, Clemente did have the childhood nickname of "Momen". Just when you thought every sports related question had been asked here, Peter comes up with a good one.
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11-04-2018, 09:08 PM
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Carew? Bench? Winfield?
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11-05-2018, 12:32 AM
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Peter, baseball-almanac.com has a hofer list w/ nicknames. Clemens is "Rocket" or "The Rocket". Spahn was "Hooks", according to wikipedia, but I have never heard that nickname for him. Everyone that plays baseball has a nickname, but "Bill" is not as good as "The Duke of Tralee". Some nicknames are better than others.
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11-05-2018, 07:12 AM
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Good question Peter.
Frank the first player that came to mind for me was Jose Valdivielso too Frank, so odd.  I once heard that players give their teammates nicknames. It's kinda a right of passage. Now weather those nicknames make it to the general public, is another thing. Like Magic Johnson was called Buck by his teammates (cuz he helped them make bucks), but to the public, he was Magic. On Koufax, i did recently see an old NY Post newspaper headline call him Koo. Any older NYers or LAers remember that?
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