OT: College & Professional Athletes Nicknames
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In order: Mickey Mantle, Charlie Keller, Carl Furillo, Elwin "Preacher" Roe, Larry Czonka and Jim Kiick
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husky guy, not the other one. vinny is the other one.
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Well done! No " research" needed?
Mark McGwire and Bill Walton were called Big Red, but there were others.
'Back in the day', I saw them race at Dover Drag Strip. Saw "Ohio" George there as well.
The last couple years Ohio George has been in attendance at the FE Race and Reunion in Beaver Springs, Pa at
Beaver Springs Drag Strip.
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Maurice and Henri
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Grange, Hirsch, one of my college roommates was Iron Head's high school coach in Passsaic, NJ.
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Other than to check on Preacher's given first name, No. These were easy for me. I grew up in Norwalk in the 50s. Mantle, from Commerce, OK was my childhood hero Almost all Yankee games were on WPIX, channel 11 and the Dodgers and Giants before they relocated to CA were on WOR, channel 9 so I was very familiar with Furillo and Roe. By the early 70s I moved to South Florida where Czonka and Kiick earned those nickname playing for the Dolphins. My Dad, also a huge Yankee fan would tell me about the outfield of Charlie "King Kong" Keller in Left, Joe Di in Center and Tommy "Old Reliable" Henrich in Right
There's also Craig "Ironhead" Heyward
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I think Clyde the Glide is Clyde Drexler. Walt Frazier's nickname was just Clyde. Sweetness is Walter Payton.
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Lee Trevino
Hondo is John Havlicek.
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Too easy.......the splendid splinter was MLB’s Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox). Teddy ballgame was also one of williams’ monikers. Williams still holds the record of being the last player to hit over .400 (406) for an entire season (1941). Tony Guinn came close finishing at .396 in 1984.
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The big unit was 6’10” pitcher Randy Johnson. Flo Jo was the late female sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner. Some hitters have lamented that Johnson’s pitching delivery stride to the plate was so long, it felt like he was right on top of them when he released the ball.
Johnson, a left- handed pitcher made many a left-handed hitter’s front leg turn to “jelly” when he came at them wiith a big sweeping side arm pitch. 
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"Spider" Dan Hesford, UConn hoops '60s.
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I was thinking Secretariat but yes, Dave Cowens was called that too. I don't know about Andy Reid, he reminds me of Craig Stadler's nickname, The Walrus
Good one but not the one i was thinking of
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Maurice Richard and his younger brother Henri. Roger Clemens.