Boys of Summer and their NICKNAMES!

Baseball, without a doubt, has the BEST player nicknames in all of sport.

Can you identify these players (without the help of Google).  You will see what I mean by the “best nicknames.”

Oil Can

The Big Hurt

The Man

Say Hey Kid

Kung Fu Panda

Splendid Splinter

The Babe

Charlie Hustle

The Penguin

The Big Unit

Catfish

Sandman

Crime Dog

All Rise

Mr October

Shoeless

The Commerce Comet

Big Papi

Mr Cub

Ryan Express

Cool Papa

The Wizzard

And on it goes…..I’m sure you have some in mind.

A couple of honorable mention goofy ones:

Spaceman  (Bill Lee)

The Bird  ( Mark Fidrych)

My assigned nickname that never saw the light of day:  I gave this name to Aaron Hill when he played for the Dbacks. He hit for the cycle TWICE in eleven days!  AMAZING feat.  My nickname for Hill was:  CHAINSAW….which of course you know, has a 2cycle engine.  They should have asked me…that is a SICK nickname.  If you know Aaron Hill, please send it to him with my compliments.

Dennis Boyd, Frank Thomas, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Pablo Sandoval, Ted Williams, George Herman Ruth, Pete Rose, Ron Cey, Randy Johnson, Jim Hunter, Mariano Rivera, Fred McGriff, Aaron Judge, Reggie Jackson, Joe Jackson, Mickey Mantle, David Ortiz, Ernie Banks, Nolan Ryan, James Bell, Ozzie Smith