Baseball Nicknames

darwinbulldog · #1 06-22-2021, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark17

For many years I had assumed Giants pitcher Hooks Wiltse must've had a pretty fair curve to have acquired that nickname.

Then I learned he was called that due to his quick fielding hands - contemporaries said he could pick balls hit back up the middle as if he had hooks for hands.

My great-grandfather who played minor league ball acquired the same nickname for the reason you assumed.

darwinbulldog · #2 06-22-2021, 12:13 PM

"Death to Flying Things" is probably my favorite baseball nickname. And I love the irony of Mad Dog for Greg Maddux

BuzzD · #3 06-22-2021, 12:40 PM

How about Losing Pitcher Mulcahy? ouch! Also like Slim Love

Hankphenom · #4 06-22-2021, 01:54 PM

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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.

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.

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