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Around the Horn w/Nicknames

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It’s early June. While baseball season is about a third complete, Marc’s Yankees and Bruce’s Phillies are in the running while my Reds play footsie with 3 other teams for the cellar.  

Baseball is a game played by fan favorites: the icons, legends, the good, and those who can say they played in The Show. Baseball is a game with history, numbers, and a great collection of nicknames. This post is for Marc, Bruce, and other baseball fans having too much time on their hands. Not a fan of baseball? Enjoy the list.

While I don’t claim to have gathered every nickname in the game (so don’t say I excluded any), I created a list that I will divide over multiple posts by categories, so this is the first in a series to come over the summer. Stay away from Google and other resources; plus no chanting “a rigged system” because we have enough of that crap. Complaints & corrections may result in disqualifications. I’ve named this category, Just a Name.

GUIDELINES

  1. Some players are best known by their nickname
  2. Knowing the real first name isn’t required, but an extra challenge (not extra credit)
  3. Credit yourself with the correct last name 
  4. Players can be the answer more than once
  5. Some nicknames qualify for multiple players, but only one is required for credit
  6. “name 2” requires at least two answers for one credit
  7. Answers and a scoring rating are below the video
  8. Answers are the most common, but not all

JUST A NAME

Babe 

Bags 

Bambino

Bip 

Boog 

Buck (name 2)

Bucky  

Buzz 

Cakes 

Campy 

Candy 

Cap 

Casey

Chief 

Cobra 

Cocky 

Daffy

Dazzy 

Dizzy 

Doc 

Duke 

Dusty 

Dutch 

Eck 

Eggs

Fergie 

Gabby 

Gates 

Gibby 

Godzilla 

Gus 

Happy 

Hojo 

Hoot 

Inky

Izzy

Jeptha 

Junior 

(The) Kid (name 2)

Kiki

Killer 

King 

Kong 

Lefty (name 2) 

Maz 

Nails 

Prince 

Popeye 

Pops

Puck

Pud

Pudge 

Quiz 

Rajah 

Red (name 2)

Rock 

Rocky 

Rusty 

Ryno 

Satch 

Scooter 

Skip 

Smokey (Smoky)

Sparky 

Spoke 

Spud(s) 

Stormy  

Tippy

Thor 

Tug 

Whitey (name 2)  

Winny 

Yaz

Yogi

Zorro

ANSWERS

(Note) If said Prince Fielder, mark it wrong because Prince is his real first name.

Floyd (Babe) Herman, George (Babe) Ruth; Jeff (Bags) Bagwell, Leon (Bip) Roberts, John (Boog) Powell; William (Buck) Ewing, Walter (Buck) Leonard, Zack (Buck) Wheat, William (Buck) Showalter; Williams (Bucky) Walters, Russel (Bucky) Dent, and others; Lee (Buzz) Capra, Jim (Cakes) Palmer; Bert (Campy) Campaneris, Roy (Campy) Campanello; Williams (Candy) Cummings, Harold (Cap) Anson; Charles (Casey) Stengel, Charles (Chief) Bender, Cesar (Chief) Geronimo, Mel (Chief) Harder; David (Cobra) Parker, Eddie (Cocky) Collins, Paul (Daffy) Dean, Charles (Dazzy) Vance; Jay (Dizzy) Dean, Paul (Dizzy Trout); Dwight (Doc) Gooden Roy (Doc) Halladay, Edwin (Duke) Snider, Johnnie (Dusty) Baker; Hubert (Dutch) Leonard, Darren (Dutch) Daulton; Dennis (Eck) Eckersley, Bruce (Eggs) Benedict

Ferguson (Fergie) Jenkins, Charles (Gabby) Hartnett, William (Gates) Brown, Bob (Gibby) Gibson, Hediki (Godzilla) Matsui, Early (Gus) Wynn, Albert (Happy) Chandler, Howard (HoJo) Johnson, Bob (Hoot) Gibson, Pete (Inky) Incaviglia, Jason (Izzy) Isringhausen, Eppa (Jeptha) Rixey, Ken (Junior) Griffey Jr., (Kid); Gary (The Kid) Carter, Charles (Kid) Nichols, William (Kid) Gleason, Ken (The Kid) Griffey Jr; Hazen (Kiki) Cuyler, Harmon (Killer) Killebrew; Michael (King) Kelly, Carl (King) Hubbell, Felix (King) Hernandez; Dave (Kong) Kingman, Robert (Lefty) Grove, Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, Steve (Lefty) Charlton; Bill (Maz) Mazeroski, Len (Nails) Dykstra, Hal (Prince) Newhouser, Don (Popeye) Zimmer, Willie (Pops) Stargell, Kiby (Puck) Puckett,

James (Pud) Galvin, Carlton (Pudge) Fisk, Ivan (Pudge) Rodriguez; Dan (Quiz) Quisenberry, Rogers (Rajah) Hornsby; Urban (Red) Faber, Charles (Red) Ruffing, Albert (Red) Schoendienst; Tim (Rock) Raines, Rocco (Rocky) Colavito, Daniel (Rusty) Staub, Ryne (Ryno) Sandberg, Leroy (Satchel) Paige, Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto, Jared (Skip) Schumaker; (Smokey) Burgess, Walter (Smokey) Austin, (Smoky) Joe Wood; George (Sparky) Anderson, Tris (Spoke) Speaker; Chris (Spuds) Sabo, Virgil (Spud) Davis; David (Stormy) Weathers, Felix (Tippy) Martinez, Noah (Thor) Syndergaard, Frank (Tug) McGraw; Richie (Whitey) Ashburn, Edward (Whitey) Ford, Dorrell (Whitey) Herzog, Carroll (Whitey) Lockman; Dave (Winny) Winfield, Carl (Yaz) Yastremski, Lawrence (Yogi) Berra, Zolio (Zorro) Versalles

SCORING

Level 1: 00-20:  I get it. You’re not a fan or don’t care … but that’s OK

Level 2: 21-35: You made it to the dugout to sit on the bench in the low minors

Level 3: 36-50: You know more than you think or not as much as you thought 

Level 4: 51-64: Well done. You owe Marc lunch

Level 5: 65+:  A great start. You owe me lunch

24 thoughts on “Around the Horn w/Nicknames”

  3. Frank, happy to report I landed in Level 3, which if nothing else means I don’t owe anybody a lunch. 🙂 A few guys were before my time, which I also didn’t mind because it is nice to know at least some baseball was played before I was born lol. Fun post!

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  4. For baseball fans, this was a clever post, Frank. At this point in the season, my entire local team’s nickname rhymes with bozers. My gosh they are bad and make a fan want to tune them out totally. There are some in town who actually may be turning to cricket for a sport that utilizes a bat since the Rocks seem to have abandoned theirs.

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    • Monica,

      I empathize with your feelings about the Rockies. It’s difficult to follow a struggling franchise, let alone cheer for them. Definitely no fun. Most fans simply want their team to be competitive – but baseball prefers that all the marbles to be concentrated in a handful of teams. Sad … very sad.

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      • They lost me after trading Arenado. They seem to be the worst managed team in the league, yet keep the same management in place. I realize not all teams can be winners but when you squandered away the best player you had, you start to add up the cost of a game versus the entertainment value (based on a family of 4, over $140 for a family of four, according to an analysis of MLB attendance prices by sports betting site Bookies.com which supposedly includes four of the cheapest available tickets, parking, two pints of beer, two 20-ounce sodas, and four ballpark hotdogs. I’m dubious it isn’t higher as parking alone on game day gets uber inflated all over the area surrounding ballpark. There are a lot better ways to spend money in the Mile High for much better sports entertainment. And don’t get me started on the lack of a salary cap in baseball.

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  5. Cincy (That is MY contribution to this nicknames post),

    Welp, it looks as if I owe myself lunch! I CANNOT believe I flubbed Bip! How in the hell did I not get that one? I overthought it is how, because I could not for the life of me see what was in plain view!

    More!

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    • Marc,

      Congratulations. Treat yourself to a Cubano sammy is in near future. Two long-time friends of mine scored in the 50s, but I doubt they will drive to your place to buy you lunch.

      This list wasn’t easy, so getting to Level 4 is very commendable. “Gus” was probably too hard – even for the those engrossed in baseball history. My buddies also said they couldn’t believe some of the ones they missed – or the name didn’t come to them.

      I’ll have another one in early July – and the list will be shorter.

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      • Yeah, that’s fine. And hey! I had the Cubano just the other day, I must have known.

        It wasn’t easy! I had to go through it a couple times because I was overthinking some of them. But like I said . . how in the blessed hell did I miss Bip???

        Woot!

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  6. Welp, it’s official Everything has a password!

    As for the question to the answer. Where has this Uber been all our lives? And a follow up question. Does it have satellite radio?

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