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Donnie Baseball should be on this list, but since he's not, I'll say that.

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"Donny Baseball should be on this list."

True, so could Mr October, The Georgia Peach, Oil Can, etc. I didn't want to make it a 30 name poll though. Maybe I should've.

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Yeah but Oil Can was a no name player. Certainly not close to being on the level of Don or the other names on your list. Should this be restricted to good players only?

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Nothing compares to the Big Unit in terms of coolness, randomness, and odd phallic reference all wraped into one.

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Well, to be fair, Don isn't on the level of the players listed either. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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Yeah but Oil Can was a no name player. Certainly not close to being on the level of Don or the other names on your list. Should this be restricted to good players only?

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Well, to be fair, Don isn't on the level of the players listed either. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

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True, he's certainly not on the level of Cobb. If only hadn't had his back and other assorted injureis. They derailed his Hall of Fame track career- tragic.

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Not one of the best, but when Griffey, Jr was good, his nick was "the Kid". Plain, in and of itself, but kinda cool cuz he hailed from the same hometown (Donora, PA, I believe) as Stan the Man.

The Man and The Kid from the same city....kinda cool.

Josh

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Where is SuperJew.

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"Wild Hoss of the Osage."

I've always liked the three word nicknames: "The Commerce Commet," "The Yankee Clipper," "The Flying Dutchman," "The Splendid Splinter," "The Georgia Peach," "Le Grande Orange," "The Old Perfessor," "The Mad Hungarian."

A great one is "Death to Flying Things"

There's "Big Poison" Paul Waner and "Little Poison" Lloyd Waner. Man, those 30s Pirates teams were STACKED with four HOFers (Waners, Arky Vaughan, Pie Traynor).

There's "The Say Hey Kid," "Tom Terrific," "The Penguin."

Anyway, the best nicknames are the ones that BECOME the player's name. Not nicknames writers throw out so they don't say the player's name five times in a row, but names that you think of first when you think of the player. Ducky (Wucky) Medwick. Pudge Rodriguez. Oil Can Boyd. Babe Ruth. Shoeless Joe. Three-Finger Brown. Ugly Dickshot.