Who has the best nickname in baseball history?

[IE]

couple come to mind...

Mark ''The Bird'' Fydrich

Bill ''Spaceman'' Lee

Rusty ''Le Grande Orange'' Staub

Walter ''Big Train'' Johnson

Al ''The Mad Hungarian'' Hrabosky

yours?

 

[BleedDodgerBlue]

Dennis "oil can" Boyd

Little Caesar for izturis

Billy "i suck" Koch (my own favorite)

 

[ballplayer8]

Gary "The Kid" Carter

 

[Keith 1]

Donnie Baseball (Mattingly)

 

[pd1]

shoeless joe jackson

 

[AR182]

the mick.......mantle

the babe.......ruth

the splendid splinter....williams

the duke......snyder

say hey......mays

joltin joe......dimaggio

old reliable......hendrich

killer......killebrew

 

[Keith 1]

Donnie Baseball (Mattingly)

second choice: Teddy Ballgame (Ted Williams)

 

[hogman14]

mike greenwell, the gator. #39.

 

[Blackman]

Goose Gossage

The Sultan of Swat....Ruth

The Yankee Clipper...DiMaggio

Walter "Big Train" Johnson

Charlie Hustle

The Wizzard of Oz

Mr October

"Nails" Dykstra

 

[ripken8]

georgia peach-ty cobb

hammerin hank- aaron

Jim "catfish" Hunter

 

[ScreaminPain]

Jim "catfish" Hunter

I agree...and he didn't even fish....lol.

 

[twofingers]

George " The Stork" Theodore

beat that one.

 

[IE]

Mordecai ''Three Fingers'' Brown

 

[IE]

Dennis ''El Presidente'' Martinez

Stan ''the Man'' Musial

 

[Sun Tzu]

Big Unit is another good one

The Rocket

Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams

Jimmy Wynn - the Toy Cannon

Or the basic, original, and timeless...

Lefty Grove

 

[slick willy 17]

not a Yankee Fan

but...................... gotta go with the Yankee Clipper

 

[Davoso]

"The Penguin" Ron Cey

 

[AR182]

the chairman of the board......whitey ford

 

[OAKAS]

Clarence "Choo Choo" Coleman

 

[buddy]

"Vinegar Bend" Mizell

Elroy "The Baron Of The Bullpen" Face