Baseball biography old player nicknames
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Baseball biography old player nicknames
Butts Wagner And Peek-A-Boo Veach: The 30 Greatest Names From 19th Century Baseball
Baseball nicknames in the s were like moustaches at a craft beer festival – everybody had one and they were freaking amazing.
It was a time when grown men went by names like Scrappy, Ham, and Jocko. When Native American players went by Chief, deaf players went by Dummy, and no one thought twice about having a guy on their team named Alamazoo. When managers said things like, “We need a big bat in this spot.
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Tell Doggie Miller to get ready to pinch hit.”
Even the regular names were pretty fantastic back in the day. Every team had at least a few names that sounded as if they were hastily conjured up by a horrible novelist mere seconds before the game began – monikers like Fred Gunkel, Julius Willigrod, and Dorsey Riddlemoser.
You can have your trendy, modern baby boy names, your Liams and Aidens and Carters.
But I’ll take a guy named Klondike Douglass every day of the week and twice on Sunday.