Nicknames

Our last name has always been in play when it came to nicknames

I spent 8 years in grammar school with kids thinking my name was "Riz" and was always known as "Riz" even to this day when on the ballfield.

My sons were all known as "Riz" except for the youngest he was "Little Riz" because he was in school with his brother

My nickname in high school was "Cannonball" because I broke one kid's arm and another kid's leg in one high school game. I did both on "roll slides" into second base. Guess I understand why you can't "roll slide" anymore in high school.

Played with a guy we called BULLHORN, for obvious reasons, Fly [play off last name, but also appropriate], Buzz, Rocco [Italian guy - duh]. Had a kid on our team at 9-10YO - called him Lumpy - he is now 6'2" 185# !!Still call him that, tho.

When my oldest was a freshman, a senior asked him his name, my son said "Steve", the senior said you look more like a "Wayne" than a "Steve". It stuck. My younger son is "Little Wayne", my mother comes out to watch a lot of games and she is now officially designated as "Grandma Wayne".

I would have preferred they tagged him with "Crash" or "Moose" or something cool but instead he will go down in school history as "Wayne".

Two minor leaguers from the 90's who unfortunately never got the call. "Pork Chop" Pugh and "Motorboat" Jones

We call our player "Stuff" -because he's got some!

Being an ex Navy Flier, I always give my youth players nicknames like callsigns and some have stuck. One particular kid who looked exactly like a young Ronny Howard, I called Opie. Well he's a Junior in HS now and I don't think anyone knows his given name. He's Opie.

Another one sweet looking 10 year old with long eyelashes I called Bambi and his mother calls me and tells me he (she) wants something more manly like Gunner or Spike. He eventually quit baseball and is a top HS golfer.

Halfmoonslider aka Threadkiller

A few years ago we were playing in a tournament and not doing too well. One of our players who is/was not normally a big hitter was having quite a day though at the plate. I asked him what he had for breakfast that morning, he replied Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Since then, whenever he comes up to bat, we call him "Crunch".

I'm surprised that nobody has broke out some of Chris Berman's nicknames. The best one is....

Bert "Be Home" Blyleven

I like nicknames as a coach, and I have a few good ones from this year's team:

"Jockey" - our 2B is about 5-4, 125 1bs.

"Stitch" - CF is another little guy, and he imitates the movie character perfectly.

"Bobble" - Our catcher has a huge head (size 8) so the players say he looks like a bobble-head doll!

**I like those 3 - all are FANTASTIC young men, and they have fun with the nicknames. I personally had 2 as a player:
Psycho - I am very intense and my skipper thought I was...
Knightmare - play on the name, got it from a sportswriter in Erie, PA

This thread is too funny. Son says everyone on team has a nickname, including the coaches.
Chill,
Have you fallen off your chair yet?

I had a scrawny little kid on my team one year. This kid was never groomed very well!! His hair was all over the place, his clothes were always just a little messed up and he usually had some dirt on him somewhere!! So we affectionatly(sp.)named him Filthy McNasty!!! That name fit this boy like a glove!

My 05’ son played Varsity as a freshman, starting every game either as a pitcher or 1st baseman. Needless to say in the beginning he had to earn respect from the upperclassmen (which he did).

My father is named after his father (Jr); I am named after him (III) and my son, after me (IV). The team found out and called him “Quattro”. I was called “Tray”, and my father (his grandfather) “Deuce”.

These names lasted for two years. In his junior year, they found out our middle name (Rutledge), since then he has been called "Rut" which has stuck and he proudly wears on some of his shirts.

Genman

In a PONY league game a few years back a young man came to the plate and the opposing dugout started chanting "PIG!"...PIG....PIG!".....then strike the PIG out!....look out PIG!.....

I called time and warned the dugout to stop with the name calling........the rest of the game was very silent......after the game, the boys mother came over to me and told me that the other team (who happended to be made up of schoolmates of the player) were not insulting her son........that everyone calls him PIG, and has for years......

Another one

We had a young man from Wisconsin play with us this fall and he quickly was dubbed "CHEESE"

Leave it to the guys on the bench !!!

My son is referred to as "Spew" because he puked several times while playing a HS football game.

A kid on his team is referred to as "Sandblower" because he is so short that when he expels gas he blows the sand.

THE BIG UNIT !!!

In HS I was Moose, because I am a large man.

In College I was CONG, same reason (stuck with that one)

My son has picked up a couple....

Gunner
Crash (another catcher like Crash Davis - crashing the walls )


Some of the nicknames of kids on my teams....

Spike (the kid with spikey hair)
Jag ( the kid with the 8 syllable last name that starts with Jag )

This is an entertaining thread!

Keep 'em coming.........

"THE HUMAN RAIN DELAY"

There is a guy on our Connie Mack team that I call "Itchiro". He is a Left-Handed hitting CF that leads off. He is a white guy, but can run like the wind. He slaps the ball and can leg out many groundballs. If you throw him inside (like Itchiro) he can pull the ball and show some pop.

My favorite...THA BULLDOG.

We had a kid on our 16U club I affectionately referred to as "Biscuit."

Any guess who that was?

Where to start? Both my last and first name are a pain to say... So most people call me Dima... But my baseball coach misheard it and called me Dimmie... Ever since then I'm Dimmie or Dim on the field. Before I've been called Gecko... or Geico... "Hmm... Dimmie... I like it, it's short and efficient."

Well with 3 sons that plays (or had played) sports. They had some quite a few nicknames but their last name was always what had stuck with them "Ariail" (pronounce as Ariel)

My oldest sons name is Austin, he played football in HS but his dad had nicknamed him "Hosscat" from the time he played little league football all the way to high school b/c of his size.
the middle one plays baseball in college, growing up playing sports he was nicknamed "Tater" b/c of his blond, but in college it is "Ryano" for one his name and the way he charges out of the bullpen like a rhino. Now the youngest one plays high school baseball, he was kind of small growing up so he was nicknamed on the team as "Wee man", now he is 17 and 6'4 they changed it to the "The Whip" b/c when he pitches a ball they guys say his arm looks like a whip.

Played ball on a team with 2 guys named Rick [one was actually Frederick, but went by Rick] - one was tall the other was short - so they became Fred and ....BARNEY. Fred didn't mind - Barney wasn't thrilled... Had another we called BEDROCK [no relation!!]

My son's favorite player is ARod, his first initial is D so D-ROD has stuck for several years. For a moment it was Hot Pockets, well the reason for this was he had a hot pocket for breakfast at a Vegas Tournament, he went 5 for 8 with a homer and three doubles. So his nickname was "HotPockets" for a while after that. Funny thing is , I saw a kid from the tournament team buying a whole box at a local supermarket, I had to laugh!!!! He wanted to break out of his slump!

Oldskool....aka Murph......aka Murph-Zilla has made an appearance!!!!!

Good to see you here my brother!!!

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When my son was on Little League All-Stars as an 11 year old, they all got sweatshirts with nicknames on them. The kids got to pick what they wanted, so the names were a bit interesting for some of them..

Lizard
Big Country
Little Country
Big Dog
Pretzel
Ironman
Evdog
Hollywood
Bobby Bouchet

Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head...

Let me guess which one was Evan....hmmm......

Evdog???

I will come up w/ a new one for him. You can't force a nickname though. It has to come naturally or it will not stick.

For now I will call him "Unhittable" for the No-Hitter he threw or "Precious Cargo" for the way Mom and Dad haul him around with the 6 hour roundtrip commute to play w/ us.

Something better will come. Give it time.

With a last name like Bonesteele, you can imagine the gaggle of nicknames that come up ... a couple that aren't printable.

Most of the time it's simply 'Bones'. One parent on our club team calls him El Fuego ... he's been the 3 or 4 hole guy on our club teams for a couple years now.

Don't mean to be long winded ... but this really is a funny story: since I work in eBusiness, I created a personal website for my son (it's free to me). I kept this completely separate from our HS website, initially not even telling the coach about it, so there'd be no appearance of any preferential treatment in the eyes of other families. I taught our HS Athletic Director how to maintain/update our HS website himself, showed him some new features I was testing on my son's site. Late one night my son and I are watching a local Cox cable broadcast of one of our HS games. My son comes up for an at-bat on TV ... and the Cox commentators start talking about the stuff on his website. My son looks at me in disbelief, says "Dad, what the heck!" ... I just shrug "beats me ... I didn't do anything" . You have to understand ... he was one of only three sophomores on a varsity team stacked with talented seniors. An Underclassmen. He was not happy.

It was at least a month before 'Dot-Com' wore off in the dugout.

Turns out the AD thought the site was cool and added a link from the HS website roster ... the Cox guys went through the HS online roster before the game. I just made sure the AD told the coach who had put that link up ... I've since helped other families put up similar sites for their sons, and the coach keeps a list of URLs to give out to college coaches, but we keep the links off the HS site.

When my son was young he hated this nickname...Now he loves it. (my guess is the girls seem to like it.)We have had girls call Mrs. Bullwinkle to ask what is his middle name. At High School commencement he told the Principle that his middle name was "Lee" Now the entire town thinks that its true!

BrockLee

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Originally posted by TromblyBaseball:
Let me guess which one was Evan....hmmm......

Evdog???

I will come up w/ a new one for him. You can't force a nickname though. It has to come naturally or it will not stick.

For now I will call him "Unhittable" for the No-Hitter he threw or "Precious Cargo" for the way Mom and Dad haul him around with the 6 hour roundtrip commute to play w/ us.

Something better will come. Give it time.

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He has a few other nicknames...none of which I am allowed to repeat here....The president of the LL nicknamed him "Evdog"...but he hasn't been called that in a few years. As far as I know the high school coach or team has not come up with one for him yet.

This one is too good to pass. I played with some good ones. I have played with an Eclipse, Satchel, Dirt, and Q-Tip. Coached a Fungo, Crash, Buck, Moose, and Spot. What makes a nickname funny is how they got the name. There was a player who used to write for Baseball America who did an article on this subject. Try a search for Will Rosellini. I think this would be interesting to all.
Eclipse was about 6'2, 250, Satchel was the oldest guy on the team (by about 6 years), Spot was an outfielder who was so small he looked like a spot, Buck had hair like George Washington on a dollar bill, Crash was found passed out in someone else's yard, Q-Tip was a tall pale guy with almost white hair. I also knew a Popeye, Tea Pot, and Catfish (he was traded for catfish). I have also found that in baseball, if your name is only one syllable, a "Y" is usually added for some reason.

Coachb35,
I've got tears in my eyes because I am laughing so hard at your last post.

That is a classic!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve- We have meetings each night when we are at tournaments. We were at your tournament last thanksgiving and Mario Hollands (6'4 LHP at 15 and growing before our eyes)was leaning against the wall as there was nowhere to sit. We finally noticed that he was literally sleeping while standing up. Robby Alcombrack affectionately nicknamed him "The big sleep".

I remembered a few more that I have to tell. Sloth moved very slow. We had Lefty who was actually right handed. He could catch anything in the outfield just couldn't throw it. We also had Night. We were a very close team. He liked it. But the best, I don't know how I forgot is SOPOS. Pronounced the way it looks. He is a freshman on our college team now, and is very well built, but about 5'8. We call him a "Sawed Off Piece of S_____". Let you guess the ending. That is probably one of the best I have heard.

I got the nickname Bear because of 3 reasons, 1.) My size and build

2.) I worked at a childrens camp one summer and had somewhatlonger hair than I do now along with a beard and when I'd wake up in the mornings my hair would be puffed out more along with the beard and the kids always used to call me bear cause I looked like one and they were always afraid to wake me up after i had gone to sleep cause I'd warn them not to wake me up being loud so the saying was don't wake the bear unless you wanna be eaten. That was a fun summer.

3.) The girls all say I look like a cute cuddly teddy bear

Rob,
"The big sleep" is a good one. Now that you have posted on this topic you have to get going. I have to believe that you have some good nicknames to share. C'mon Rob, let us hear them!!!

coachb35,
Way to come through w/ more classic nicknames!

Son's nicknames haven't been too unusual. Started in LL when there were 2 players with the same name. He became "Big Eric" (got his height early in life), then it was shortened to "Big E", then over time it became just "E" for a number of years. In HS, he was known only as "freshman" his first year on varsity. Since then its either been just E or hyphenated with a shortened last name to "E-Mass".