Ok, the votes are in. According to our readers, the best baseball nicknames in order of their votes are…….#22 - "Dr. K" (Dwight Gooden)
#21 - Roger "The Rocket" Clemens
#20 - "Junior" (Ken Griffey)
#19 - Willie "Pops" Stargell
#18 - "The Chairman of the Board" (Whitey Ford)
#17 - "Rapid" Robert Feller
#16 - "Donny Baseball" (Don Mattingly)
#15 - "Dizzy" and "Daffy" Dean
#14 - Paul "Poison" Waner and Lloyd "Little Poison" Waner
#13 - "Double X" (Jimmy Foxx)
#12 - "The Say Hey Kid" (Willie Mays)
#11 - "Big Mac" (Mark McGwire)
#10 - Walter "Big Train" Johnson
#09 - Fred "Bonehead" Merkle
#08 - "The Yankee Clipper" ("Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio)
#07 - Mordecai "Three Fingers" Brown
#06 - "The Georgia Peach" (Ty Cobb)
#05 - "The Big Unit" (Randy Johnson)
#04 - "Hammerin' " Hank Aaron
#03 - "The Sultan of Swat" (George Herman "Babe" Ruth)
#02 - "The Splendid Splinter" (Ted Williams)
And the number one vote getter is - Richie Hebner “The Grave Digger”
I have to say, I’m partial to Jeffrey “Penitentiary Face” Leonard……… but he didn’t get any votes….
Mike Cardano is the founder of Around The Horn and Ultimate Franchise Baseball ™.
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