![]() "The Flying Scotsman" Bobby Thomson (he hit "The Shot Heard 'Round the World) "Sweet Lou" Piniella and "Sweet Lou" Dunbar (basketball, from Minden, La., and the Harlem Globetrotters) Hazen "Kiki" Cuyler Leon "Goose" Goslin Lynwood "Schoolboy" Rowe "The Reading Rifle" Carl Furillo "Wild Thing" Mitch Williams "Scrap Iron" Clint Courtney (the majors' first bespectacled catcher from Hall Summit, La., 40 miles from Shreveport) and Phil Garner (from Knoxville, Tenn.)Īrchibald "Moonlight" Graham (played in one major-league game, then became a doctor and was portrayed in the movie Field of Dreams by Burt Lancaster) Strangleglove" Dick Stuart "Sweet Swinging" Billy Williams "The Schnoze" Ernie Lombardi "Smokey Joe" Wood "The Walking Man" Eddie Yost Old Aches and Pain" Luke Appling Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd "Dr. "Bucketfoot" Al Simmons (Baseball Hall of Famer who once played for Shreveport) "The Grey Ghost" (the character Gavin Grey, played by Dennis Quaid in the movie Everybody's All-American, adapted from a novel written by the late, great Frank Deford) John "Blue Moon" Odom Jim "Mudcat" Grant Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown "Spaceman" Bill Lee Ross' list (I added first names and comments): That might be my favorite article you've written. ![]() ![]() How about people whose first names are just initials (usually, but not always, abbreviations for their full names)? How about those two-tone first names?įirst, back to nicknames. Because overnight dozens more came to mind, and also there are two other "name" categories. The response on the nicknames blog was a good one, and so we go on.
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