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Hello SigPig! Interesting idea you had about making a List of athletes by nickname. I have been very busy making a list of NHL players by team and when checking double redirects and other bad links, I happened to run across your list when I went to "what links here" for Gump Worsley. Two suggestions: firstly, set up the table of contents similar to it is on List of Montreal Canadiens players so that your list is all alphabetical. Secondly, I noticed that nothing actually links to your list. There is no way to actually find your list from other pages. Masterhatch 16:32, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Good idea. I'll start on that soonest. SigPig 21:29, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Apparently, 86.197.45.41 added several names. However, a quick google search showed that they lead to nothing, except French 6th or 7th division ice hockey players. I suggest we erase them. Mrbluesky, 11:22, 12 November 2005

Contents 1 Hockey 2 "Air Canada" Carter 3 Coppi edit 4 Sugar Ray? 5 Super Mex? 6 Lancastrian 7 Unattested 8 Gutting the article 9 Grumpy Bill Jenkins 10 Discussted? 11 No bull 12 New to the Game 13 3 Questions 14 Hit Jim Rome in the mouth? 15 Duke of One? 16 The Mobile Chicane 17 Count von Count

[edit] Hockey

• Got to C for hockey disambig. D-Rock 05:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
• Done through J D-Rock 23:31, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
• Got through R D-Rock 19:59, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the cleanup, friend. I didn't have enough Ritalin to tackle that myself. SigPig 00:55, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
    • Happy to do it. Eases my obsessive compulsive tendancies. D-Rock 20:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
• Finally done. D-Rock 20:21, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Somebody missed Moose Watson... Trekphiler 12:23, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Air Canada" Carter

Why remove the "Air Canada" entry? If it was once his nickname, it should still be in there; the article is a collection of athlete's nicknames, current and erstwhile. SigPig 00:55, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

I couldnt agree more. The same goes for Steve "Franchise" Francis, who has since been traded to Orlando. Mrbluesky 15.08, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Coppi edit

I don't actually speak Italian, but I'd Q if it means "champion of champions", which ought to come out something like "campino di tutti campini"; I rather think it's more like "champion to the max", like bravissimo. Trekphiler 05:55, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sugar Ray?

I've heard Leonard didn't actually like being called that, believing it belonged to Robinson. Trekphiler 06:36, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Super Mex?

Was Trevino actually called that? Trekphiler 11:01, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lancastrian

Was Ron Lancaster called "The Little General"? Trekphiler 12:58, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unattested

I came across Ray "Crash" Corrigan, John "Buddy" Lewis, & a variety of guys nicknamed "Speed" on the List of Wheaties boxcovers. Anybody who can confirm, will you please include them here? Trekphiler 14:42 & 14:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gutting the article

Yo, Mrbluesky! Why did you remove all the names you did in the last edit (without any commentary)? I mean, c'mon -- even I've heard of Whitey Ford. Inquiring minds want to know -- I've reverted until then. SigPig 01:39, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'm assuming good faith, that the article is perhaps getting too big (53K), and it was decided to trim the fat (but "Whitey Ford"?). A suggestion then -- maybe the list should be divvied up according to sport -- "baseball", "football" (including all AUSCANUSUK varieties), "basketball", "boxing", and "other", similar to the hockey list. SigPig 01:46, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, sir, I don't know what happened. I don't remember having erased those knicknames (which are, by the way, perfectly acceptable), but the history section doesn't lie. BTW, splitting the list is a brillant idea. Once again, sorry for the mess (sleep deprivation, I guess...). Mrbluesky 22:10, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

No worries, I didn't think it was vandalism. I've already started a List of baseball nicknames article; next one after that I figure will be List of boxing nicknames. Once the baseball list is good, I'll start removing the lads from the Sports list. And I spent 20 years in the CF, so I know about sleep dep. SigPig 13:24, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grumpy Bill Jenkins

The link on the page for Grumpy goes to some politician, not Grumpy Jenkins the drag racer, currently residing in Malvern PA, who's race team is running 5th in points (as of Saturday), If there is no Grumpy Jenkins page (seems to be so) the link to someone else should be removed 204.214.109.178 16:28, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Ya shoulda added a page on the Grump, you're more up to date on his career than me! Trekphiler 14:42 & 14:55, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi there , I notice that List of hockey nicknames has a tag on top of it that suggests merging that list with this one. I also see that you've had discussion deciding to break the list up and make one for each sport. I think that's a great idea. A huge list of every sport-person is just too long and unwieldy. I like having a hockey-only list. It makes useful information easier to find. I vote to take the 'merge' tag off the List of hockey nicknames page. ColtsScore 04:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discussted?

OK, my C$0.02 worth: merge the pages. They're hard enough to find without having more than one page. And how 'bout a link to 'nicknames', where I looked & found no mention of an entire page of them I knew existed. Sheesh! Trekphiler 19:56, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No bull

Wasn't Nuvolari known as 'The Bull' of someplace? (His birthplace, I'd guess). Trekphiler 20:09, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New to the Game

Hey everybody. I am completely new to Wikipedia editing let alone the List of Baseball Nicknames. I like the idea of having a list of all sports nicknames, if the sports are separated somehow because you get a flavor of the history of each sport. If the list of baseball nicknames gets merged will it continue to exist in the Baseball section? I would like it to. Chitownfcko 14:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3 Questions

Three questions: First, in each entry on the list is a country. Does this represent the country the player played in or the country of birth? Second, how exhaustive of a list is this? There are tens and tens of Chicks, Reds, Rubes and Docs. Should all of them be compiled regardless of how long they played or how significant their career was? I would vote yes. Third, should players' names who don't have a page on Wikipedia such as Bing Miller be formatted as a link to a non existant page or just be plain text? Chitownfcko 14:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC

[edit] Hit Jim Rome in the mouth?

Do we really need to include his "Chris"? It's not like anybody else uses it... Trekphiler 07:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Duke of One?

I deleted Formula One from Duke Nalon. He was a midget & Indy roadster driver, & never raced in Europe. Trekphiler 08:19, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Mobile Chicane

de Crasheris isn't the only one described this way... Trekphiler 11:06, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Count von Count

I added "Cannonball" Baker, Cotton Henning, Chick Hirashima, "Clay" Regazzoni (which I always thought was his actual name...), "Charging Charlie" & "Charging Comet" Glotzbach, "Count von Crash", & "King of the Used Cars" Darel Dieringer (after the so-called "Used Cars Division" of NASCAR, as ex-Mercury-equipped racers were briefly known), among others, from Cutter & Fendell's Encyclopedia of Auto Racing Greats (Prentice-Hall, 1973). Trekphiler 01:49 & 03:47, 23 November 2006 (UTC)