We can do better than first names
The All-Nickname team for describing body parts and player 'tendencies'...
With political correctness, the days of the great nicknames are gone....
C Lawrence 'Yogi' Berra
(If a nickname ever fit....)
1B- Willie 'Stretch' McCovey
(Even this nickname is no longer used)
Bachup 1B- Brandon 'Baby Giraffe' Belt
(Modern day, animal names are still ok. This one really fits.
Kung Fu Panda gets an honorable mention here too)
2B Johnny 'Ugly' Dickshot
(I cheated in that Dickshot (Love writing the name) was mostly an outfielder, but wanted to include him.
Dickshot (never gets old) gave himself the nickname. He thought of himself as the ugliest man in baseball.
Dickshot married and had five little Dickshot's. None of which, he thought, 'Ugly'.
3B Ron 'The Penguin' Cey
(Anybody who saw Cey walk across the field would enjoy the nickname)
SS Harold 'Pee Wee' Reese
Reese was a giant though when it came to 'The Boys of Summer')
LF Walter 'No Neck' Williams
(Look at a baseball card)
CF Jimmy 'Toy Cannon' Wynn
(Khris Davis is the modern day Jim Wynn)
RF Joe 'Ducky' Medwick
(Medwick's gait was similar to a duck's, much like Cey and a penguin. He took offense of the nickname.
His teammates called him 'Muscles' in overcompensating))
DH- William 'Dummy' Hoy
(He is widely credited for out and safe calls with the right hand up and the palms down. Also, the right hand going up when a strike was called.
Signals from the third base coach have also been attributed to Hoy.
'Dummy' was deaf and needed the signals by hand.
Back in the day, 'Dummy' was a common nickname for the hearing impaired.)
STARTER Mordecai ''Three Fingers' Brown
(He would be suing somebody for using that name today)
LEFTY STARTER- Randy 'Big Unit' Johnson
(This has to do with his height, right?)
REL- Don 'Ears' Mossi
(In the book, 'Ball Four', Jim Bouton wrote that when Mossi approached, he looked like a taxi cab with both doors open.
Seriously, look at his baseball card)
REL- Mark 'Scrabble' Rzepczynski
(Nothing to do with the body, just like the nickname)
REL- Ryne 'Coke bottle Glasses' Duren
(Hitters were terrified of Duren. He threw hard and looked like he couldn't see.
Casey Stengel said that if a player got hit in the head by Duren that he would be talked about in the past tense.
Duren was the inspiration for yet another nickname, Ricky 'Wild Thing' Vaughn)