Chris Berman’s ESPN Baseball Nicknames
20th Anniversary (1980-2000) of keeping the list
Back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back...
He… could…. Go… all… the… WAY! (It’s been used during baseball too)
Last Updated on: 3/6/2016.
Where did all this come from?
The nicknames actually started back back back when Berman was attending
Brown University (‘77 graduate, History). He and his buddies would
come up with the names while drinking their “favorite beverage.” The
author started logging nicknames on paper shortly after Berman started
using the nicknames in June of 1980 (the first nickname: wither John
Mayberry "RFD" or Frank Tanana "Daiquiri"). According to Berman, the
nickname "just came out."
Berman has been with ESPN® since a
indicated, a-la George Brett, that
career at ESPN®. The list has been
1994, and portions of the document
below.
month after the beginning, and has
he would like to spend his entire
a Microsoft Word document since
appear on the Internet sites listed
For a 20th anniversary interview from ESPN®:
http://espn.go.com/espnanniv/features/01376679.html
Some other facts (from ESPN®.com):
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Berman regularly hosted SportsCenter for 11 years, but although his assignments have changed, he always
returns to host a few in the winter, "just to keep DiMaggio's hitting streak alive."
Berman has received much attention for his more than 800 nicknames, given mostly to baseball players,
such as Roberto "Remember the" Alomar and Jim "Two Silhouettes on" Deshaies that often reflect his
interest in history and music.
A long-time aficionado of rock and roll, Berman has appeared on stage singing with Huey Lewis and the
News several times, has appeared in a video with Hootie and the Blowfish, and was joined by Glenn Frey
of the Eagles for a special "Hotel California" Super Bowl edition of "The Swami."
Berman's nickname rule: "Make sure it's not derogatory. It's got to be fun."
Where can you find Berman these days?
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NFL PrimeTime™ (1990- ), where he does football nicknames!
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ESPN SportsCenter (1979 - ). Does very few of these anymore, except for special occasions like
SportsCenter’s 20,000th show on May 17, 1998, or in the winter, to "keep his Joe DiMaggio hitting streak alive."
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ESPN Baseball Tonight (1990 - ). Mostly Sunday nights, before the NFL kicks in.
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Calling MLB games, usually on Wednesday nights.
Nickname Links on the Internet – copies go to each of these people in order to obtain the
most nicknames (since I don’t have a web site):
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Mr. Goodbytes’ (Tony Marchi) List of Bermanisms©, currently at Version 2.0:
http://hometown.aol.com/mgoodbytes/private/index.htm
mailto:MGOODBYTES@aol.com
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Chris Harris’ shrine to SportsCenter now contains this file among the list of nicknames he has tallied
http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/
Note: Baseball Nicknames tracked only. Somebody else can do the other sports!
The printed page (or other places you can get your nickname fix)
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ChrisNames - An Illustrated Guide to Chris Berman’s Unique
Characterizations of Sports Personalities by Chris Berman,
Illustrated by Dan Floersch, edited by Louis Oppenheim. Andrews and
McMeel, 1994.
ChrisNames 1996 Calendar - A Day-to-Day Guide to Chris Berman’s
Unique Characterizations of Sports Personalities by Chris Berman.
Andrews and McMeel, 1995. 1995 Chris Berman. This was the only
edition ever sold.
Key to symbols:
* 1986 All Star Nickname Team Member
$ 1987 All Star Nickname Team Member
! 1990 Opening Day All Star Nickname Team Member
 1991 All Star Nickname Team Member
% 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Team Member
Legal Stuff
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Baseball Tonight are trademarks of ESPN, Inc. a division of Disney, Inc. All
Rights Reserved.
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GO Network © 1999 Infoseek Corporation. All rights reserved.
London Werewolves logo ©2000 London Werewolves. All Rights Reserved.
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Nicknames for other ESPN/ABC announcers
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Chris “Fair Or” Fowler
2.
Chris “Intentional” Fowler
3.
Peter “Back” Gammons
4.
Dan/Bill Patrick “Division”
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John “The Colonel” Saunders
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Karl Raviesh “Shenkar” (he left his sitar at home)
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Dwayne Statts “Inc.”
Nickname for the Baseball Tonight Screaming Home Run Ball: “In Orbit”
(not coined by Berman)
Nickname for Home Runs With nobody on base: “Napoleon Solos”
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Nicknames for CB (aka: “Boomer”)
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Chris “Ethel Merman” Berman
2.
Chris “Hunk-a Hunk-a” Berman “Love”
3.
Chris “I’ll Never Be Your Beast Of” Berman
4.
Chris “Kringle” Berman
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Chris “Mississippi” Berman
The Celebrity list (from the 1994 Celebrity Home Run Challenge at the All Star Game)
1.
Ken “Second Degree” Burns
2.
Tony “Tiny” Danza
3.
Danny “Baseball” Glover
4.
John “Marquis” Grisham
Old-Timers
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Ty “Corn On The” Cobb
2.
Juan “Field” Marichal
3. Willie “Lost In the” Mays
4. George “Twisted” Sisler
U.S. Presidents: Bill “In Like” Clinton
The Big List (1979-Present)
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Glenn “Hey” Abbott
Kurt “Hey” Abbott
Shawn “Lil” Abner
Juan “Real” Agosto
Rick “See You Later” Aguliera
Luis Alicea “In Wonderland”
Mike “Enough” Aldrete
Doyle “Brandy” Alexander
Manny “The Skat” Alexander
Bill “Toasted” Almon
Roberto “Remember The” Alomar (2B) |
Sandy “Remember The Other” Alomar Jr.
Jesus/Felipe/Matty/Moises “Skip To My” Alou
Joey “Cask of” Amalfatano
Rich “Protect Your Car With” Armoral
Brady “Bunch” Anderson
Joaquin “The Dog” Andujar
Eric “Little” Anthony “and the Imperials”!
Kevin “Going” Appier
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Tony “Brothers In” Armas
Jack Armstrong “The All-American Boy”
Renee “La Cuch” Arocha
Paul “Orville” Assenmacher
Dan “Guns Of” August
Steve Avery “and Ivory”
Steve “Poison” Avery
Bobby “We all live in” Ayala “Submarine” %
Manuel “Belly up to the” Aybar
Oscar Azocar “Named Desire”
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Jason “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ Bachman
Wally Backman “-Turner Overdrive”
Wally “Takin’ Care Of Business” Backman
Jeff “Brown Paper” Bagwell
Scott “Hay” Bailes
Harold “Growing” Baines
Jeff Ballard “Of A Thin Man” (P)!
Scott “Tahlulah” Bankhead
Mark “Beetle” Bailey
Sherman “O”Bando “On My Knee”
Willie “Money In The” Banks
Floyd “Up The Down” Bannister
Jesse “Belly Up to the” Barfield
Tim “Belly up to the” Barti
Marty “Grin And” Barrett
Marty Barrett “Tone”
Carlos “One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if” Barrega
Kevin “Small Mouth” Bass
Jason Bates “Motel”
Bill “Bubble” Bathe
Eddie “Fat Man in the” Bathe
Ross “I Never Promised You A” Baumgarten
Scott “Hay” Bayles
Billy “Lima” Beane
Matt “Son of a” Beech
Rod Beck “Beck, Beck, Beck”
Steve “Soil” Bedrosian
Stan “Belinda” Carlisle
Albert “For Whom the” Belle “Tolls”
George “Taco” Bell (RF)$ |
“Everybody’s Favorite” - Rafael Belliard
Rafael “Good Day at the Old” Belliard
Esteban “Bats in the” Beltre
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Bruce “Eggs” Benedict
Andy “Merchant of” Benes
Mike “Private” Benjamin
Todd “Mercedes” Benzinguer
Jason “Rasberry” Bere
Dave “Ingmar” Bergman
Marvin “St.” Bernard
Karl "These are the" Best "of times"
Dante “Inferno” Bichette
Craig “Matinee At The” Biggio
Doug “High Flying” Bird
Mike “Room and” Bordick
Bud “Paint It” Black
Lance “Oh Darn, You sunk my” Blankenship
Jeff “See Thru” Blauser
Ron “Chevy” Blazer
Burt “Be Home” Blyleven (P)*$|
Bruce Bochte “Ball”
Randy Bockus “Is Willing”
Joe “Leave it to” Boever
Tim “Humphrey” Bogar
Tom “Lightning” Bolton
Ricky “Bad to the” Bones
Ricky “Signing” Bones
Bobby “Bad to the” Bonilla
Joe “Leave It To” Bouever
Wade “Cranberry” Boggs
Barry “U.S.” Bonds %
Pat “South (or North) Of The” Borders
Mike “Room and” Bordick
Darrell “Please Come To” Boston
Ryan Bowen “Arrow”
Marshall “Wrap Around” Boze
Scott “Milton” Bradley
Glenn “No” Braggs “Just Fact”
Sid “Coffee And” Bream
Dave “06010” Bristol
Bernando Brito “Supreme”
Scott “Am” Brocious
Scott “Supercalafragilisticexplia” Brocious
Greg “Crocodile” Brock
Greg “Life of” Briley
Hubie “Babbling” Brooks
Bob “Bulldog” Brouwer
Jerry “Governor” Brown
Mark “Hey There Little” Buddie
Steve “Head for the Mountains of” Buechele
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DeWayne “Miami” Buice
Jim “Cock and” Bullinger
Dave Burba “Shave”
John “Charcoal” Burkett
Ellis “Fire” Burks
Britt “Third Degree” Burns
Randy “Bird In The Hand” Bush
John “USDA” Butcher
Bret “Tara” Butler
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Ivan “Bubbling” Calderon
Ernie “Macho” Camacho
Ernie Camacho “Man”
Mike Cameron “Swayze”
Ken “Helmet” Caminetti
Bill Campbell “Soup”
Sil “When The Swallows Return To” Campusano
Casey “Sixteen” Candaele
Tom “Cotton” Candiotti
Jose “Can You See” Canseco
Don “Roses” Carman
Chris “If I were a” Carpenter
Chuck “Baby you Can Drive my” Carr
Mark Carreon “My Wayward Son” (RF)!%
Joe “Sgt.” Carter
“My Cousin” Vinny Castillo
John “Clams” Castino
Ron “Born In The U.S.” Cey
Ron Cey “Hey”
Steve “Kentucky Fried” Chitren
"Golden" Archi Cianfrocco
Dave Clark “5”
Jack “The Wiffer” Clark
Danny “100 Lbs. Of” Clay
Royce “A Roni” Clayton “The San Francisco Treat”
Mark “Crystal” Clear
Danny “Van” Clyburn
Bret Barbarie “Coast”
Greg “Barbary” Coast
Dave “Vodka” Collins
Barolto “After Shave” Colon
Steve “Beach” Comer
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Keith Comstock “Lode”
David “Ice Cream” Cone
David “Sili” Cone
Jeff Conine “The Barbarian”
Dennis “Short Order” Cook
Scott “Little Deuce” Cooper
Joey “Alba” Cora
Pat “O.K.” Coralles (Mgr)*
Wil “Bungee” Cordero
Marty Coroda “With the Soft Cornithian Leather”
Ed “Chick” Correa
Jim “Gold” Corsi
Chuck “Welcome Back” Cottier
Henry “Ava” Cotto
Craig “War” Counsell
Doug “Cripple” Creek
Keith “Shrimp” Creel
Tim “Pablo” Crews
Chuck “Crème de la” Crim
Jose “Can You See” Cruz (LF)*$
Jose “Can You See” Cruz Jr.
Julio “Won’t You Let Me Take You On A Sea” Cruz (2B)*%
Todd “Caribbean” Cruz
"Kol" Midre Cummings
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Omar “Barbie” Daal
Kal “Jack” Daniels
Ron “Oh My” Darling
Danny “Theory” Darwin
Darren "Dutch" Daulton
“Red Hot” Chili Davis
Jodi Davis “Eyes” ©*
“Riders On The” Storm Davis %
Glenn “Mr. Outside” Davis
Eric “The Red” Davis
Bill “Hello” Dawley
Steve “Upper” Decker
Ken “Fix Or Repair” Dayley
Jeff Dedmon “Don’t Wear Plaid”
Brian Deer “Hunter”
Rob “Bomba” Deer
Rob “Rein” Deer
Carlos “In” Delgado “Da Vida” %
Mike “Abraham, Martin, and” DeJohn
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Jim “Two Silhouettes On” DeShaies (P)$%
Deliano “Decoconut” Deshields
Orestes “Emotionally” Destrade
Mike “Buenas Noches” Diaz
Alex “Buenas” Diaz
Bo “Buenas” Diaz
Rob “Double” Dibble
Mike DiFelice “Navidad”
Gary “Little Old Lady From” Disarcina %
Bill Doran “Duran”
Rich “280Z” Dotson
Brian “10” Downing “Street”
Kelly “Churchill” Downs
Dan “Salad” Driessen
Kirk “Devil With The Blue” Dressendorfer
Rob “Acey” Ducey
Mariano “Slam” Duncan
Mike “Well” Dunne
Leon “Bull” Durham
Jim “Washer And” Dwyer
Jermaine “Live and Let” Dye
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Tom “East of” Edens
Jim Edmonds “Fitzgerald”
Robert “Eddie” Eenhoorn
Joey “Bette Davis” Eischen
Cal “Respect Your” Eldred
Lee Elia “Kuryakin” (Mgr.)$
Juan “R”Encarnacion
Dave “Right” Engele
Alvaro “ESP”i”N”izoa
Cecil Espy “N”
A.J. “Sager &” Evans
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Hector “Sizzling” Fajado
Pete “Maltese” Falcone
Steve “Bridge Too” Farr
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Monty Fariss “Wheel”
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Mike “Gentleman” Farmer
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Mike “Left” (or Center or Right...) Felder
Felix “The Cat” Fermin
“El” Sid Fernandez
Monty “Hall” Ferris
Mike “Horse” Fetters
Cecil “B” Fielder
Jay Fiedler "On The Roof"
Rollie “Chicken” Fingers
Chuck “Huckleberry” Finley
Steve “Dorsal” Finley
Steve “Chariots of” Fireovid
Mike “Tuna” Fischlin
Mike “Edmund” Fitzgerald
Scott Flectcher “Christian”
Kevin "Linoleum" Flora
Bryce “Linoleum” Florie
Cliff “Pink” Floyd (Grounded to the Dark Side of the Moon)
Barry “Athlete’s” Foote
Curt “Model T” Ford
“Disco” Dan Ford (Dances in the outfield)
Tony “Petrifed” Fossas
Tony “Prehistoric” Fossas
Bob “Air” Forsch
Ken “Magnum” Forsch
Julio “Generalissimo” Franco
Herman “Ballpark” Franks (Oldie)
George “3-time World Series Loser” Frazier
"Smokin" Lou Frazier
Marvin “Philadelphia” Freedom
“Starvin’” Marvin Freeman
Jim “Bella” Fregosi
Todd “Which Arm/Hand Does He” Frohwirth
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Greg Gagne “With a Spoon”
Andreas “The Giant” Galarrga
Mike “Leggo My” Gallego
Oscar “6 To 5” Gamble
Ron “Extrava”Gant
Nomar "Mr. Nice Guy" Garciaparra
Mark “Chauncy” Gardner
Phil “Scrap Iron” Garner
“Tux” Cito Gaston
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Dan “Man From” Gladden
Tom “Heard It Through The” Glavine
Greg “Lesley” Gohr
Greg “It’s my Ballpark and I’ll Pitch if I want to” Gohr
Jason Gombi “Jack Flash”
Juan “Going Going” Gonzalez”
Luis “Speedy” Gonzalez
Rene “Don’t Walk Away” Gonzalez
Dwight “Johnny B.” Gooden %
Jim Gott “The Loss” (or win, or save, or no-decision)
Mark “Amazing” Grace
Joe “Flannel” Grahe
Mark “Federal” Grant
Bobby “Seven Year” Grich
Ben “Good” Grieve
“Fettucini” Alfredo Griffin (SS)*$
Kevin “Totally” Gross
John “Pass The” Grubb
Don “Don The” Gullet
Mark “Mr. Customs Man” Gutherie
Jose “Canadian:eq Guzman
Jose “Mother” Guzman
Chris “Mighty” Gwynn
Tony Gwynn “One For The Gipper” (OF) |
Tony Gwynn “and Bear it”
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Moose “Antlers” Haas
John Habyan “Corpus”
Jerry “Hap” Hairston
Mel “Carnegie” Hall
Mel “Tammany” Hall
Shane Halter “Top”
Bob “Green Eggs &” Hamelin
Darryl “Green Eggs &” Hamilton
Jeff “Hamilton Joe Frank and Reynolds”
Chris “Mr.” Haney
Chris Hammond “Cheeser”
Pete Harnisch “Racing”
Dave “Look Ma, No” Hansen
Mike “China” Hargrove %
Toby “Last” Harrah
Mike Hartley “Mike Hartley”
Ron “Tala” Hassey
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Mickey “Egg” Hatcher
Brad “Richie” Havens
Charlie “Issac” Hayes (gives teams the SHAFT)
Von “Purple” Hayes (RF)*%
Ray “Justin” Hayward
Ed “Hit Man” Hearn
Mike Heath “Bar”
Neal “Body” Heaton
Neal “Oil” Heaton
Danny “Uriah” Heep
Tommy “At The” Helms
Todd “Highway to” Helton
“Joggin’“ George Hendrick
Tom Henke “Panky”
Gil “Family” Herdia
Tommy “Ben” Herr
Greg Hibbard “Claws”
Greg “Old Mother” Hibbard
GlenAllen “Gugrich” Hill
GlenAllen “Strawberry” Hill
Johnny “Blueberry” Hill
Sterling Hitchcock “I Presume”
Chris “Bubbles Bubbles” Hoiles “and Trobules”
Sam “Little Big” Horn
Vince “Four” Horsman
Rick Horton “Hears A Who”
Art “and” Howe
Jay “Thurston B.” Howell (RP)*$|
Peter “Chips A” Hoy
LaMarr “Where Does It” Hoyt
Kent “Buy A Vowel” Hrbek
Glenn “Mother” Hubbard
“Reckless” Rex Hudler “The Wonderdog”
Charles “Moscow On The” Hudson
Tim Hulett “Packard”
Dave “The Incredible” Hulse
Todd “That Dog ‘il” Hundley
Brian “Deer” Hunter
Butch "Corn" Huskey
Jeff “Going Back to” Huson
Tom “Ex-“ Hume
Clint “High” Hurdle
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Brook Jacoby “Wan Kanobi”
Jason Jacome “Lovers When We Can’t Be Friends”
John “Get Your” Jaha
John Jaha “Lantern”
Bob “The Car Please” James
Chris “Bartles And” James
Dion “And The Belmonts” James
Stan “You Can” Javier “Way”
Domingo “Abraham Martin and” Jean
Craig “The Hammer” Jeffries
Steve “Nobody” Jeltz
Doug “Abraham, Martin, &” Johns
Cliff “Brothers” Johnson
“Major” Lance Johnson
Wallace “’Ya Doesn’t Have To Call Me” Johnson
Doug “Along Came” Jones
Jimmy “Handy Man” Jones
Ruppert “Me And Mrs.” Jones
Ruppert “Along Came” Jones
Felix “Do You Know The Way To San” Jose
Wally “Absorbine” Joyner (1B) |
Wally “Almond” Joyner
Jeff “Juden” Priest
David “Blind” Justice
David “Chief” Justice
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Gabe “Welcome Back” Kapler
Ron “Miami” Karkovice
Scott “Good Dog” Karl
Eric Karros “Matic”
Jeff “Clark” Kent
Jimmy “Francis Scott” Key
Darryl “Gomer” Kile
Eric “Burger” King
Mike “The Man Who Would Be” Kingery
Bob “Yom” Kipper
Ron “Ma And Pa” Kittle
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Steve “Patsy” Kline
Joe “Colonel” Klink
Ray “I Dub Thee” Knight
Erik/Tommy Kramer “vs. Kramer”
John “I Am Not A” Kruk (1B)$
Randy Kutcher “In The Rye”
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Rene “Don’t Walk Away” Lachemann
Mike “Izod” LaCoss
Mike Laga “Beer”
Kerry “Leather and” Lacy
Jeff Lahti “Da”
Steve “Fire” Lake
Tim “Great” Laker
Tim “Fire” Laker
Gene Lamont “Cranston”
Dennis “Florescent” Lamp
Tom “Lava” Lampkin
Bill “One if By” Landrum
Dave “Don’t” LaPoint
Barry “Meadow” Larkin
Gene “Meadow” Larkin
Dan “That Wasn’t Me In ‘56” Larsen
Tim “Praise The” Laudner
Mike “Car 54” LaValliere
Rudy “Mother In” Law
Vance “Common” Law
Tim Leary “Is Not Dead”
Alan “Fruit of” Lebine
Derek “He Did it Rather Impressiv” Lee
Jim “Saturday Night” Lefebvre (MGR)!|
Craig “Def” Lefferts %
John “Fat” Lieber
Al “(I Said a) Bud” Leiter
Al “Cigarette” Leiter
Mark “Cigarette” Leiter
Scott “Lay Lady” Leius
Mark “Officer” Lemke
Chet “Bitter” Lemon
Patrick “Imagine” Lennon
Jeff “Sugar Ray’ Leonard
Randy “Addams Family” Lersch
Mike “Car 54” Levalere
Al “Fruito” Levine
13
446.
447.
448.
449.
450.
451.
452.
453.
454.
455.
456.
457.
458.
459.
460.
461.
462.
463.
464.
465.
466.
Jim “Frito” Leyritz
Nick “You got me on my Knees” Leyva %
Jose Lima “Bean”
Jose Lind “On Me”
Jose Lind “Cuisine”
Jim Lindeman “Cheese”
Nelson “King” Liriano
Pat “Pencil Thin” Listach
Scott Livingstone, “I Presume”
Keith Lockhart “In Space”
“Moonlight” Grahme Lloyd
Dave “Canta” Lopes
“What’s it all about” Albi Lopez
John “Tonight Let It Be” Lowenstein
Mike “Tender” Loynd
Erik Ludwig (with some help from Mozart and Beethoven)
Urbano “Renewal” Lugo
Esteban “There’s a Hole in the Bucket” Luisa
Ed “Merrill” Lynch
Barry Lyons “and Tigers and Bears (Oh My)”
Rick “Innocent” Lysander
M
467.
468.
469.
470.
471.
472.
473.
474.
475.
476.
477.
478.
479.
480.
481.
482.
483.
484.
485.
486.
487.
488.
Kevin “No” Maas
Bob “Old” MacDonald
“Danka” Shane Mack
Shane “Connie” Mack
Shane “Fleetwood” Mack
Bill Madlock “D.A.”
Mike (or Greg) “Appa” Maddux
Mike “Mathe” Maddux
Dave “Mary” Magadan
Joe Magrane “Headache”
Jim “Norman” Mahler
Rick “Junk” Mahler
Pat Mahomes “Where The Heart Is”
Pat “Getting Closer to” Mahomes
Candy “Man” Maldanado
Kurt “What Was That” Manwaring
Jeff “Praying” Manto
Jerry “Rowan And” Martin
“Pass The” Buck Martinez
Chito “Goes Crunch” Martinez
Dave “Vodka” Martinez
Dennis “Three” Martinez “Lunch”
14
489.
490.
491.
492.
493.
494.
495.
496.
497.
498.
499.
500.
501.
502.
503.
504.
505.
506.
507.
508.
509.
510.
511.
512.
513.
514.
515.
516.
517.
518.
519.
520.
521.
522.
523.
524.
525.
526.
527.
Mike “Perry” Mason
Mike Mason “Jar”
Don “Welcome” Mattingly
Milt “Maggie” May
John Mayberry “R.F.D.”
Brent “Remember The” Mayne
“Captain” Kirk McCaskill
“Big” Ben McDonald
Oddibe “Young Again” McDowell (CF)*$
“Me And” Willie McGee
Fred “Crime Dog” McGriff
Mark “Eve Of Destruction” McGwuire %
Jose “Flying” Melendez
Bob Melvin “And The Blue Notes”
Orlando “I am” Merced
Kent “Magic” Mercker
Jose “Costa” Mesa
Mike “Maxa” Mimbs
Greg “Moon Man” Minton
Angel “In the Morning” Miranda
Kevin “Sing Along With” Mitchell
Mike “(Twelve, Eighteen) Year” Mohler
Paul Molitar “and the Merrimac”
Rick “Monday,” Monday
“Eating” Raoul Mondesi
Don “Easy” Money
Don “Just Send” Money
Jeff Montgomery “Ward”
Russ “Tabernacle” Mormon
Jim “People Are Strange” Morrison
John “Holy” Moses
Paul “Kremlin” Moskau
Darrell Motley “Crue”
James “Teenage” Mouton “Ninja Turtles”
Pedro “Blue” Munoz
Pedro “Harvest” Munoz
Eddie “Eat, Drink, And Be” Murray
Mike “Loggins and” Mussina
Randy “Quag” Myers
N
528.
529.
530.
531.
Tim “Golden” Naehring
Charles Nagy” ’s Farm”
Ricky “Travelin’ Man” Nelson
Gene “Ozzie And Harriet” Nelson
15
532.
533.
534.
535.
536.
537.
538.
539.
540.
541.
542.
543.
Gene “Full” Nelson
Greg “The Flying” Nen
Al “What Me Worry?” Neumann
Jeff “Alfred E.” Neumann
Reid “Buffalo” Nichols
Dave Nilson “Schmilson”
Otis “My Man” Nixon
Paul “Buenos” Noce
Eric “Nick” Nolte
Matty “No” Nokes
Edwin “High” Nunez
Jon “Get Thee to a” Nunnally
O
544.
545.
546.
547.
548.
549.
550.
551.
552.
553.
554.
555.
556.
557.
558.
559.
560.
561.
562.
Rich “Party” O’day
Johnny “Quaker” Oates
Sherman Obabno “On My Knee”
Brian “B.P.” Oelkers
Ron “Shucks” Oester
Chad “The Glove Fit” Ogea
“Gentle” Ben Oglivlie
Bob “My Car” Ojeda
John “Jan” Olerud ©!
Steve “Vi” Olin.
Francisco Pitted” Oliveras
Greg Olson “Golden” (P)!
Kevin “Iron” Orie
John Orton “Hears A Who”
Donovan Osborne “The Hurdy Gurdy Man”
Al Osuna “or Later”
Antonio Osuna “or Later”
Amos Otis “Elevator”
Dave “Double-O” Otto
P
563.
564.
565.
566.
567.
568.
569.
570.
Vicente “Buckingham” Palacios
Lance “Red House” Painter
Donn “Whiter Shade of” Pall %
Raphael “Emerson Lake And” Palmero %
Jim “Hanky” Pankovits
Craig “Add And” Paquette
Al “Don” Pardo
Mark “Planned” Parent
16
571.
572.
573.
574.
575.
576.
577.
578.
579.
580.
581.
582.
583.
584.
585.
586.
587.
588.
589.
590.
591.
592.
593.
594.
595.
596.
597.
598.
599.
600.
601.
602.
603.
604.
Mark “Trans” Parent
Chan Ho “3Com®” Park
Clay “Ma” Parker
Dave “Parallel” Parker
Jim Parque “Floor”
Bill “Veal” Pecota
Tony “Jala” Pena © |
Terry “Pit And The” Pendleton (3B) |
Melido “Shuffle” Perez
Pascal “Road Map” Perez
Tony “Turn The Other” Perezchica
Robert “Missing” Person
Ken “Good Evening Mister” Phelps (1B)*
Mike “Pepperoni” Piazza
Phil “The Final” Plantier
Bill “Liquid” Plummer
Eric “Ker” Plunk
Kevin “Roll Out the Barrel” Polcovich
Dale Polley “Want a Cracker”
Luis “A” Polonia
Jim “Car” Poole
Chuck “My Bags Please” Porter
Jorge “Carne” Posada
Ted “Tower Of” Power
Arquimedez "Principle" Pozo
Joe “Actual Retail” Price
Joe “The” Price “Is Right”
Jim “Hound Dog” Priesley (3B)*
Tom “Goodnight Sweet” Prince
Ricky Proehl "Shampoo"
Kirby “Union Gap” Puckett %
Arquimez “Principle” Pugo
Terry “Swimming” Puhl
Darrell “Gomer” Pyle
Q
605.
Jamie “Men At” Quirk
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606.
607.
608.
609.
Brad/Tom “Totally” Radke
Tim “Purple” Raines
Joe “Help Me” Randa
Pat “Bum” Rapp
17
610.
611.
612.
613.
614.
615.
616.
617.
618.
619.
620.
621.
622.
623.
624.
625.
626.
627.
628.
629.
630.
631.
632.
633.
634.
635.
636.
637.
638.
639.
640.
641.
642.
643.
644.
645.
646.
Johnny “Manta” Ray
Randy “Ever” Ready
Gary Redus “A Bedtime Story”
Bryan Rekar “Named Desire”
Kevin Reimer “Reason”
Edgar/Rick “Trailers For Sale or” Renteria
Jerry “Rolls” Reuss
Dave “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the” Rhode
Rick “Thunder” Rhoden
Rick “Why Don’t We Do It In The” Rhoden
Pat “Converted” Rice
Gene “Little” Richards
Greg “Razor” Riddoch
Dave “Prince” Righetti
Jose “Blame It On” Rijo
Wally “Lionel“ Ritchie
Kevin Ritz “Cracker”
Kevin “Matinee At The” Ritz
Ben “French” Rivera
Luis “Buick” Rivera
Bip “The Ignitor” Roberts
Cookie (or Mel) “Days Of Wine And” Rojas
Cookie “Monster” Rojas
Scott “Rock and” Rolen
Kevin Romaine “Empire”
Kevin Romaine “Lettuce”
Ron “Greco” Romanick
Ed “Cesar” Romero (Makes like The Joker)
Jim “Help Me” Ronda
Jose “You say Tomato, I Say” Rosado
Bobby “Rambling” Rose
Bobby “Toyko” Rose
Bruce Ruffin “Ready”
Kirk “Weekly” Rueter
Bruce “Two Minutes For” Ruffin
Vern “Golden” Ruhle
Glendon “After the Gold” Rusch
S
647.
648.
649.
650.
651.
652.
“The World Famous” Lynn Sakata
Mark “Tossed” Salas
Roger “Triple” Salkeld
Tim “Sock Eye’’ Salmon
Billy “Free” Sample
Juan “Play It Again” Samuel
18
653.
654.
655.
656.
657.
658.
659.
660.
661.
662.
663.
664.
665.
666.
667.
668.
669.
670.
671.
672.
673.
674.
675.
676.
677.
678.
679.
680.
681.
682.
683.
684.
685.
686.
687.
688.
689.
690.
691.
692.
693.
694.
695.
696.
697.
698.
699.
Ryne “Carl” Sandberg
Jesus Sanchez “Is Alright with Me”
Reggie “Colonel” Sanders
Mo Sanford “and Son”
Raphael “Evil Ways” Santana
Raphael “Say It Again” Santana
Benito “Il Duce” Santiago
Steve “Alto” Sax
(2B)$
Dave “Tenor” Sax
Jeff “When Your’e Having More Than One” Schaefer
Bill “Crop” Scherrer
Mike “Pre” Schooler
Bill “Beethoven” Schroder
Rick “Really Big” Schu (3B)$
Pete “Raise Your Hand If You’re” Schourek
Mike “Nova” Scioscia
Mike “Great” Scott
Scott “Rusty” Scudder
Rod Scurry “With The Fringe On Top”
Tom “Leave It To” Seaver
Bob “Ice Station” Sebra
Aaron “My Lips Are” Sele
Scott “Room” Servais
Kevin “Alka” Seitzer
Jeff “Wine” Sellars
Larry “Satin” Sheets
Gary Sheffield “Of Dreams” (3B)!
John “T-Bone” Shelby
Craig “Brewer and” Shipley
Bob Shirley “You Jest”
Eric “Win, Place, And” Show
Buck Showalter “Raleigh”
Paul Shuey “Tobacco”
Reuben “High” Sierra
Joel “Mule” Skinner
Joel “Lynard” Skinner
Don “On” Slaught
Heathcliff Slocumb “If ‘Ya Got ‘Em”
Joe Slusarski “and Hutch”
John “When Irish Eyes Are (Not)” Smiley
Lee “Arthur” Smith
Lonnie “Liston” Smith
Luis Sojo “In the Rain” %
Julio “Schoolyard” Solano
Paul “Veal” Sorrento
Sammy “Say It Ain’t” Sosa (OF)|
Mario “Scotch And” Soto
19
700.
701.
702.
703.
704.
705.
706.
707.
708.
709.
710.
711.
712.
713.
714.
715.
716.
717.
718.
719.
720.
721.
722.
723.
Tim Spehr “Tire”
Bill “Per” Spiers
Chris “Church” Speier
*Ed “Ocean” Sprague
Dennis “Jerry” Springer
Billy “No Time To Wallow In The” Squires
Matt Stairs “Way to Heaven”
Kevin “Night” Stalker
Mike Stanley “We Want to Help you do it Right”
James “Easter” Steeles
Bill “Beer” Stein
Terry “Grapes Of Wrath” Steinbach
Lee “Cat” Stevens
Kevin “Night” Stocker
Jeff “Romancing The” Stone
Todd “Ari” Stotlemeyer
Les “Moon” Straker
Doug “People Are” Strange
Darryl Strawberry “Rhubarb”
Darryl Strawberry “Sundae”
Franklin “Ticket” Stubbs
“Grand” Tanyon Sturtze
B.J. “and the Bear” Surhoff
Bruce “Three Piece” Sutter
T
724.
725.
726.
727.
728.
729.
730.
731.
732.
733.
734.
735.
736.
737.
738.
739.
740.
741.
742.
Pat “Pick Up The” Tabler
Frank Tanana “Daiquiri”
Kevin “Spinal” Tapani
Tony Tarasco “Sauce”
Eddie “Fat Man in the” Taubensee
“Who Shot” JR Taylor
Dave “Parking Lot” Telgheder
Dave “Post-Game” Telgheder
Bob “Thinging” Tewksbury (Bob and Doug Mackenzie reference for Dave Campbell)
Andres “Doubting” Thomas
Dickie “Mara” Thon
Jim “Home Thweet” Thome
Jim “Thome ”Can you Hear me?”
Jay “Mister” Tibbs
Fred Toliver “Twist”
Jim Tomy “Can You Hear Me”
Jeff Torborg “Gold”
“King” Solomon Torres
Alan “Have Gun Will” Trammell
20
743.
744.
745.
746.
747.
748.
749.
750.
Brian “Blood On The” Trachsel %
Rick "Canadian Railroad" Trilicheck
Manny “Kingston” Trillo
Steve “Rainbow” Trout
Michal Tucker “Town”
John “Private” Tudor
John “House of” Tudor
Jerry “Ike And Tina” Turner
U
751.
752.
753.
754.
Willie Upshaw “(Mr. March)”
Ugueth “What you pay for” Urbina
John “Stick It in Your” Urrea
Jose “Game Winning” Urribe
V
755.
756.
757.
758.
759.
760.
761.
762.
763.
764.
765.
766.
767.
768.
769.
Sergio “Exxon” Valdez
Jose “The Man Who Shot Liberty” Valentin
Ellis “Be My” Valentine
Dave “Death” Valle
John “All in All It’s Just Another Brick in the” Vanderwal %
Todd “Snap Crackle” VanPoppel
Andy “Dick” Van Slyke
Mo “Better Blues” Vaughn
Robin Ventura “Highway” !
Quilvio “Mother” Veras
(Commissioner) Fay “Wray” Vincent
Fernando "When It's Time To Make Some Wine Pick The Grapes Off The" Vina
Frank “101 Strings” Viola
Frank “Sweet Music” Viola
Ozzie “Like A” Virgil
W
770.
771.
772.
773.
774.
775.
776.
777.
778.
Denny “Wailing” Walling
Jim “Greenpeace” Wailwander
Bob “Intentional” Walk
Tim “Eli” Wallach
Duane “Psycho” Ward
Gary “Hospital” Ward
“The World Famous” Ron Washington
John “Hia” Wathan
Jeff “Dream” Weaver
21
779.
780.
781.
782.
783.
784.
785.
786.
787.
788.
789.
790.
791.
792.
793.
794.
795.
796.
797.
798.
Mitch “the Devil and Daniel” Webster
Walt “Three Blind” Weiss (SS) |
Bob “Ebony Eyes” Welch
David “War Of The Worlds” Wells
David “Living In The Wild Wild” West
John “Teenage” Wetteland %
Bob “Sticky” Wickman
Jerry “Rats” Willard
Dan “Hack” Wilson
Glenn “Surfin’ U.S.A.” Wilson
Jim “I’m Not The Toy Cannon” Winn
Mike “Sharp” Witt
Mark “Bay City” Wohlers
“Jersey” Bob Wolcott
Tony “Dooley” Womack
Kerry “Norweigan” Wood
Todd “We Are The” Worrell
Craig “For What It’s” Worthington
Craig “Reynolds” Wrap
Butch “Oil And” Wynegar
Y
799.
800.
801.
802.
803.
Rich “Not” Yett
Eric “Sorry Officer, I thought I was” Yielding
Joel “C’mon People Now” Youngblood
Matt “Dying” Young
Matt “Forever” Young
Z
804.
805.
Greg “Wrath of” Zahn
Todd “Good Housekeeping” Zeile !
“Team” Nicknames
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Colorado Rockie “Horror Picture Show”
The “Strohs” (Astros)
The “Brou-has” (Brewers)
The “Diatribe” (Indians)
The “Mutts” (Mets)
The “New York Mess” (Mets)
The “Compadres” (Padres)
The “Strangers” (Rangers)
The “Shreds” (Reds)
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10.
11.
12.
The “Twinkies” (Twins)
The “A.L. Worst” (A.L. West)
“Werewolves” of London (Ontario, a Frontier League team. That is their real name!)
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