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Top Five Baseball Names and…
With it being the baseball playoffs and all, I thought I’d compile some of the best baseball names of all time. These are real dude!
Top five baseball names with nickname, a personal tidbit, and career batting average (as well as link to their page in Baseball Almanac):
Johnny “Ugly” Dickshot – 26 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 16, 1936, with the Pittsburgh Pirates – .276
Heine Meine “The Count of Luxemburg (Iowa)” – Owned a bar in St. Louis and had a little league ball field named after him around the corner – .144
Fats Fothergill – After a game, you could find him with a thick porterhouse steak and a seidel of beer, and he would chuckle to himself and mumble out of the side of his mouth, ‘Imagine getting paid for a life like this!” Fothergill’s “official” weight was 230 pounds, but Tigers manager once joked that it was a moral victory when the dieting Fothergill trimmed down to 256 pounds. – .325
Cannonball Titcomb – At 5’6″, Cannonball Titcomb was one of the shortest pitchers in the history of baseball. He recorded 30 wins in his career. Hitters were too busy to swing, as the rated-G joke potential of his nickname was at loggerheads with the rated-R potential of his last name, resulting in a case of joke paralysis. – .106
Beer – (From SB Nation) The keepers of baseball’s historical records refuse to leave any bit of the game’s history, no matter how incomplete or trivial, undocumented. When some guy named Beer pitched 19 games for the Lancaster Lanks in 1910, he had no reason to believe that 101 years later, we would be viewing his records on something called the Internet. .123 (in minor leagues)
