Nobody wants the Baltimore Chops???
Possibilities include:
Oil Can Boyd
Catfish Metkovich
Twink Twining
Salty Parker
Dan Quisenberry
Cookie Rojas
Spud Davis
Mike Trout
Tim Salmon
Dizzy Trout
Sean Berry
Darryl Strawberry
Sid Bream
Ralph Garr
and then there are the nicknames:
“Apples”: Andy Lapihuska
“Bananas”: Johnny Mostil
“Beans”: Harry Keener
“Beany” Beany Jacobson
“Big Mac”: Mark McGwire and Willie McCovey
“Biscuit Pants”: Lou Gehrig
“Brandy”: Brandy Davis or Doyle Alexander
“Brownie”: Brownie Foreman
“Buck Wheat”: Zack Wheat
“Bun”: Bun Troy
"Buttercup": Buttercup Dickerson
“Buttermilk”: Tommy Dowd
“Cakes”: Jim Palmer
“Candy”: Candy Maldonado, Candy Cummings, Candy LaChance, Candy Nelson
“Candy Man”: John Candelaria
“Catfish”: Catfish Hunter, Jim Crawford, Catfish Metkovich
“Cheese”: Al Schweitzer
“Chewing Gum”: John O'Brien
“Chili” Chili Davis
“Cocoa”: César Gutiérrez and Dan Woodman
“Coco”: Coco Crisp
"El Comedulce (The Candy Eater)": Bobby Abreu
“Cookie”: Cookie Lavagetto and Cookie Rojas
“Cookie Monster”: David Ortiz
“Crab”: Jesse Burkett, Johnny Evers Chris Lindsay
“Cracker”: Ray Schalk and Jim Hamby
“Cuke”: Cuke Barrows
Curry: Charles Joseph "Curry" Foley
“Doughnut Bill” Bill Carrick
“Ducky”: Joe Medwick
”Goobers”: Joe Bratcher and Goober Zuber
“Slippery Eells”: Harry Eells
“Half Pint”: Gene Rye
“Goose”: Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage
“Gummy”: Joe Wall
“Jelly”: Frank Jelincich
“J-Roll”: Jimmy Rollins
“Juice”: Juice Latham
“Lemons”: Moose Solters
“Meal Ticket” Carl Hubbell
“Milkman Jim”: Jim Turner
“Noodles”: Noodles Hahn and Frank Zupo
“The Octopus”: Marty Marion and Antonio Alfonseca
“Oyster”: Oyster Burns
“Pea Soup”: George Dumont
“Peaches”: Peaches Graham and Dan Petry
“Peach Pie”: Jack O'Connor
“Georgia Peach”: Ty Cobb
“Peanuts”: Peanuts Lowrey
“Pepper”: Pepper Martin and Pepper Peploski
“Pickles”: George Gerken and Pickles Dillhoefer
“Pie”: Pie Traynor
“Pork Chop”: John Hoffman
"Porky": Hal Reniff
“Potato”: Manuel Cueto
"Pretzels": Pretzels Pezzullo
“Puddin' Head”: Willie Jones
“Punch”: Punch Knoll
“Rabbit”: Rabbit Maranville and Jackie Tavener
"Rawmeat": Rawmeat Rogers
”Salty”: Salty Parker and Jarrod Saltalamacchia
”Salt Rock”: Ezra Midkiff
“Soup” Bill Campbell, Dave Campbell, Soup Campbell
“Sour Mash Jack”: Jack Daniels
“Spud”: Spud Chandler
“Strawberry Bill”: Bill Bernhard
“Sugar”: Bob Cain and Tom Kane
“Sweetbreads”: Sweetbreads Bailey
“Taters”: Frank Lary
“T-Bone”: Taylor Phillips
“Turkey”: Turkey Stearnes
“Yam”: Yam Yaryan
Hank Aaron and Reggie Jackson had candy bars named after them…that’s good, too…
I am quite sure there are more…
12/26/2022 5:45 PM (edited)