Great sports nicknames

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Hockey: Rocket Richard, The Golden Jet, Boom-Boom Geoffrion ....

Baseball: Hammer'n Hank, Mr. October, Jolt'n Joe ....

Foot Ball: Broadway Joe, Prime Time, Nigerian Nightmare...

Basketball: Dr, J, Air Jordan, Pistol Pete...
 
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Hockey- The Rat- Ken Linsemen, The Grim Reaper-Stu Grimson, Billy Hatchet Man Smith, The roadrunner, Yvon Cournoyer, Cujo, Killer-Doug Gilmour, Optimus Reim-James Reimer, The Bread Man-Artemi Panarin, Super Mario Lemiex.

Football. Prime time, Lester "the Molester" Hays. The Assasin-Jack Tatum. Mean Joe Green, The Mad Stork- Ted Hendricks, 3 mile Lyle- Lyle Alzado, Andre Bad Moon Rison, The Fridge-William Perry, Ed Too tall Jones, Billy White Shoes Johnson, Diesel- John Riggins, The snake- Ken Stabler

Basketball- Clyde the glide Drexler, The Iceman-George Gervin, Chocolate Thunder- Daryl Dawkins, The round mound of rebound- Charles Barkley, The Worm-Dennis Rodman, The microwave, Vinnie Johnson, Dr Dunkenstein-Daryl Griffith

Baseball- Charlie Hustle-Pete Rose, Mordeci "3 Fingers" Brown, Oil Can- Dennis Boyd, The Wizard of Oz- Ozzie Smith, Nails-Lenny Dykstra, The Mad Hungarian- Al Hrbosky, Human Rain Delay- Mark Hargrove, Crime Dog-Fred Mcgriff, Spaceman-Bill Lee, The Big Hurt- frank Thomas, Jerome "Dizzy Dean"

Others

The Intimidator- Dale Earnhardt
The Hitman- Tommy Hearns
Great White Shark- Greg Norman
Rocket Rod Laver
Hands of Stone- Roberto Duran
The Bayonne Bleeder- Chuck Wepner
 
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Boxing-Johnny "bump city" Bumphus.
Hockey-Hardy "the Swedish Sieve" Astrom.
Hockey-Claire "the milkman" Alexander
Hockey- Marc "pickles" Vlasic
Hockey-Freddy "the fog" Shero.
Politics-Joe "Joe who?" Clark.
 
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Any stories to go with these nicknames? I got one.

The police broke into Too Tall Jones hotel room looking for drugs. Too Tall was lying in bed. The police asked: "who is that naked woman"? Too Tall: "what woman?" The police: "the woman lying next to you in bed". Too Tall turns to the woman and asks: "what are you doing in my bed and how did you get into my room?"
 
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Toronto
Babe Ruth--The Bambino, The Sultan of Swat
Ted Williams--The Splendid Splinter
Eddie The Entertainer Shack
Eddie the Eagle (ski jumper)
Jack The Golden Bear
Arnie, The King
Red Grange, The Galloping Ghost
Elroy Crazy Legs Hirsch
Sid the Kid
The Great One
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Leonard
Pernell, Sweet Pea, Whitaker
Frank Mahovlich, The Big M
George Armstrong==The Chief
Jean Beliveau--Le Gros Bill
Ed, Too Tall, Jones

The French Connection--Perrault/Martin/Robert
The GAG Line (Goal a Game)--Ratelle/Gilbert/Hadfield
The Production Line--Abel/Howe/Lindsay
The Kraut Line--Schmidt/Bauer/Dumart
The Kid Line--Primeau/Jackson/Conacher
Uke Line--Stasiuk/Horvath/Bucyk
 
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The "Punch Line"

The "Old Lamplighter"

Apologies if the next three are repeats.

"Boom Boom"

"Stratford Streak"

"The China Wall"
 
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"Shoeless" Joe Jackson. Definitely one of the best hitters ever. .356 lifetime batting average. He was framed.

He was Joe Namath before Joe Namath. He scored plenty with the ladies.
"As first a player, then a play-by-play announcer and analyst for the past 36 years, he's earned the nickname "Faultless Frank."Nov 29, 1987"

"The Million Dollar" line when a million dollars was actually worth a million dollars. I think Hull accounted for $950,000 of the $1mm.

Mike "Crescent Street" Widger. That guy really liked to party.

The "Rifle".

Johnny "Ordinary Superstar" Rodgers
 
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