Greatest athletes without a nickname

CW · #1 11-04-2018, 08:10 PM

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.

Peter_Spaeth · #2 11-04-2018, 09:08 PM

Carew? Bench? Winfield?

RCMcKenzie · #3 11-05-2018, 12:32 AM

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.

WillowGrove · #4 11-05-2018, 07:12 AM

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?

frankbmd · #5 11-05-2018, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

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?

Berman would have called him Jose �Can You Say� Valdivielso

Leon · #6 11-05-2018, 09:39 AM

I don't know about sports athletes but way back in the day when I was selling technology Intel Corp. had my name as Lron Luvkry. There was a another sales rep who used to always call me Lron because of that.

and to the original subject, it is surprising Sandy Koufax didn't have a nickname.

Huysmans · #7 11-05-2018, 09:44 AM

I wonder, who was the first baseball player EVER to be given a sobriquet?

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