Most Unique Player Nickname (O/T)

[Brian Van Horn]

"Wahoo" Sam Crawford after his hometown.

[3-2-count]

Player from the past - “The Splendid Splinter” (Ted Williams)
Player from today - "The Big Unit" (Randy Johnson)

[Brian Van Horn]

Sammy "Babe Ruth's Legs" Byrd

[brickyardkennedy]

William Edward Conroy.

"Conroy picked up the nickname "Widow" for his solicitous concern for younger boys on his sandlot team and was known as "Wid" all his long life in organized baseball."

I know it's post-war, but I admit to a certain fondness for Walt "No-Neck" Williams. : ^ )

[jrhatchjr]

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[Irwin Fletcher]

"Rusty" Kuntz.

His given name was Russell. I probably would have stuck with Russell.

[abrahamrudy]

Originally Posted by Irwin Fletcher

"Rusty" Kuntz.

His given name was Russell. I probably would have stuck with Russell.

I was flipping through 86 Topps the other day and I came across his card and I just burst out laughing... He had no business with that nickname, and Topps had some nerve printing it on a card!

[prewarsports]

Never heard of this guy before a few days ago but the name is one of the best I have ever seen, especially for 1924! I think all the rappers of today owe his family a few bucks for coining their names!

"Lil" Stoner.

[Abravefan11]

Biscuit Pants

[judsonhamlin]

Wasn't there an outfielder in the 1880's nicknamed "Death to Flying Things"?

[pitchernut]

lately I've been partial too Frank "Noodles" Hahn, no card so no pic Don't know how he got the name.... here we go "Frank George Hahn was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on April 29, 1879. He acquired his distinctive nickname as a youngster, though he claimed he didn't know why. "All I know is they always called me 'Noodles,'" Hahn said. But a friend claimed to recall the origin quite well. "When Hahn was a boy in Nashville," the man explained, "he always had to carry his father's lunch to him. His father worked in a piano factory, and the lunch was always noodle soup, so the nickname was a natural." There are at least three other variations on the story, however; in one he earned the nickname because he sold his mother's homemade noodle soup, in a second he was simply fond of the soup, and in a third, his brothers gave him the nickname for carrying noodle soup for his grandmother to a poor neighbor."

[mintacular]

some interesting posts so far. If you know HOW the nickname was earned that would also be appreciated. For example, how did little poison gain that nickname? (I know his older brother was "big poison" but where did the poison concept originate?)

[SmokyBurgess]

19th century player Arlie "The Freshest Man on Earth" Latham. Behavior so bad on the field, the coach's box came into being...or so goes the story.

[Irwin Fletcher]

Danny MacFayden - "Deacon Danny"

Dave Harris - "Sheriff" (Apparently, Harris was a sheriff in his hometown during the offseason).