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Brian Joura's avatar

DH - The Hammer- John Milner

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Bob Peterson's avatar

That one popped into my head when I was reading this - you beat me to it. A couple of other honorable mentions Felix the Cat Millan and Kong (Dave Kingman).

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Mike Walczak's avatar

Kingman was also known as Sky King

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Steven Shrager's avatar

What a fun article John. Rusty was also known as Le Grande Orange. And while I know you selected one player per position, there was Noah Syndergaard's

"Thor" and let's not forget Ed "The Glider" Charles.

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Steven Shrager's avatar

Oops you had Le Grande Orange covered 🤷‍♂️

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Chris Flanders's avatar

Yes, The Hammer - a classic

"Marvelous Marv" Throneberry (also called V.R.A.M. beicause everything he did at 1B was backwards

Kid - Gary Carter

Seaver - The Franchise

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Mike Walczak's avatar

John Milner was the Hammer.

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BoomBoom's avatar

Keith Hernandez - "Mex"

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Michael Colbert's avatar

The Hacker (Mackey Sasser) couldn’t throw but he sure got his hacks in.

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Sylvia @ Substack's avatar

Great post!

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Texas Gus's avatar

How do we forget Doctor K? Some other favorites:

Maz

Diaz is called Sugar

Montanez was Hot Dog

Fonzie for Alfonzo

Captain America

The Dude

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Taryn Cooper's avatar

The Glider! Ed Charles

Keith was called “Mex” by his teammates

Fonzie for Edgardo Alfonzo (my cat is named after him!)

Not official, but my family always called Robin Ventura “Ace” as in Ace Ventura

Apropos of nothing I call Giancarlo Stanton “Jelly Doughnut”. But that’s kind of a long story (lol)

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Mike Walczak's avatar

Hernandez wasnt too fond on Mex because he is not Mexican

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Jack Susser's avatar

How about “the Stork “ , George Theodore ?

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Mike Walczak's avatar

Yes he was the Stork

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Mike Walczak's avatar

Carlos Carrasco was Cookie and lets not forget Strawberry, The Straw.

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