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Funny MLB Baseball Player Names
My apologies for the lowbrow humor, but here are some of my favorite MLB player names:
Best Actual Names: 1) Urban Shocker 2) John Malarkey 3) Orval Overall 4) Hugh High 5) Boof Bonser 6) Razor Shines 7) Pete LaCock 8) Johnny Dickshot 9) Jack Glasscock 10) Antonio Bastardo 11) Tony Suck Best Nicknames: 1) “Pickles” Dilhoeffer 2) “Sugar” Cain 3) “Lil” Stoner 4) “Oil Can” Boyd 5) “Granny” Hamner 6) “Snuffy” Stirnweiss 7) “Stubby” Clapp 8) “Bud” Weiser 9) “Coco” Crisp 10) “Peek-A-Boo” Veach 11) “Rusty” Kuntz 12) “The Only” Nolan 13) Dick Pole 14) “Mysterious” Walker 15) “Buttercup” Dickerson 16) “Vinegar Bend” Mizell 17) “Phenomenal” Smith 18) “Pussy” Tebeau 19) “Chicken” Hawks |
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Sadly I think you forgot a few
1. Dick Pole (pitcher) And if you go into other sports there is Dick Butkus General Booty Ben Gay Fabian Assmann Dick Trickle (Race Car)
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I listed Dick Pole as a nickname, since few are actually named Dick
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Milton Bradley
Boog Powell Dick "Dr. Strangeglove" Stuart "Goose" Goslin |
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https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...poledi01.shtml Or at least that is what I have seen it as
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Baseball Reference lists widely used nicknames at the top of player pages, such Oil Can Boyd |
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Where's Cannonball Titcomb?
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Don’t forget me
Go find this card!
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My 2 favorite nicknames for Baseball players:
Mike 'The Human Rain Delay' Hargrove Jeffrey 'Ole Penitentiary Face' Leonard .
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Some of my favorites:
Phede Lambke O'Koyea Dickson Dovydas Neverauskas Nikco Riesgo Asher Wojciechowski Heinie Meine Tommy Toms Red Badgro Ozzie Van Brabant Razor Ledbetter Lars Taylor-Tatsuji Nootbaar Skye Bolt Tarik Skubal Kermit Kowalk (1950s minor leaguer)
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Don't forget the Hargrave brothers Pinky and Bubbles.
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Francesco Stephen Pezzolo aka "Ping Bodie"
"Ping" for the sound his 52 ounce bat made when it struck the ball, "Bodie" for the town in California where he was born, now a famous gold mining ghost town. |
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Clarence "Cuddles" Marshall Mainstay of the St. Louis Browns.
and an old name from my hometown Buffalo Bisons hockey team: Harry Dick Poor guy lived 80 years with that name. NFL, the dynamic father son duo: Carlester Crumpler |
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I know someone named Harold Beavers...his wife's name is Patricia. .
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Keep them coming some great names
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With today's pitch clock, I would love to see how Hargrove's routine would look speeded up.
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With today's pitch clock, I would love to see how Hargrove's routine would look speeded up.
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Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson.
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Always a fan of a man that embraces the name "Puddin' Head" so much that he changes his signature -
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Love these names not sure if they are all politically correct but interesting and entertaining
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I was just thinking about Dick Pole today. If anyone is interested, there are multiple game used jerseys on Ebay right now. That's the mark of a true fan.
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Van Lingle Mungo
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Clem Labine
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"Teddy Ballgame"
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"Kiki" Cuyler
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Edgar Renteria "The Barranquilla Baby"
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Nick "Tomato Face" Cullop
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Don "The Gerbil" Zimmer
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Brett "The Golden Retriever" Jackson
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That name always conjured up an image of a west coast hot rod builder or a surfboard shaper for some reason.
Or maybe it is the infamous hit by Jerry Mungo in 1970 that's triggering me. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM Last edited by Casey2296; 08-02-2023 at 11:20 PM. |
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There was a minor league outfielder from 1949 to 1954 named K Chorlton. Yes, K was his given first name.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish.
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Always liked these 2 guys names, flow of the tongue well. Quintanilla was a local favorite when he played with Modesto.
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say no more
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Former Tigers shortstop Coot Veal. He was born in Deepstep, Georgia (great name for a shortstop's hometown) in 1932 and is buried in Macon, Georgia -- home of what IMO is the greatest pro team name ever: the Macon Whoopees (Southern Hockey League, 1973-74).
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Ha! That is a great team name.
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“Heinie” Sand, “Heinie” Meine, “Heinie” Manush
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Heinie Groh
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I always liked Baby Doll Jacobson and Ice Box Chamberlain.
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Gaylord Perry. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
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Sibbi Sisti
Luke Appling "Old Aches and Pains" Charlie Gehringer "The Mechanical Man" Burleigh Grimes "Ol Stubblebeard" Carl Hubbell " The Meal Ticket" Pepper Martin "The Wild Horse of the Osage" Herb Pennock " The Knight of Kennett Square" |
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I always felt Mickey Klutts was an unfortunate name for a ballplayer.
My favorite of all time, mentioned in the OP, is Phenomenal Smith. Classic!
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Two given names from the 2009 Bowman Draft Picks set:
Seth Schwindehammer Sequoyah Stonecipher .
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Lou "The Mad Russian" Novikoff is a classic.
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Sequoyah Stonecipher is a gorgeous name.
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I've also noticed that recent MLB drafts have features some pretty interesting names at first overall:
2015 - Dansby Swanson 2019 - Adley Rutschman 2020 - Spencer Torkelson |
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With a name like Swackhamer, he should have been a power hitter, but he never made it out of the minors.
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289. Guffawbulous
Having a name (Eddie Stanky, Heinie Manush, Johnny Pesky, Tom Tresh, Pete LaCock, e.g.) that causes every single collector alive to giggle a little bit whenever they run across one of his cards.
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