All-time Favorite Athlete's Names?

[phillybri]

Here's my list:

Rusty Kuntz
Coco Crisp
World B. Free
Exree Hipp


Nicknames count, too!

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Billy McCool.

B-)

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. Ooh! How could I forget?

"He Hate Me"

[amber dog democrat]

3. Jessie Owens

He certainly showed the Nazis how wrong they were.

[Kellanved]

9. seconded

eom

[phillybri]

12. Great pick...but I'm looking for great names...

...not necessarily great athletes...

Owens was the man, though.

[gpandas]

4. i.m. hipp n/t

[nickinSTL]

5. Cincinnati Bengals in the early 90s

Boomer
Turk
Ickey

[salinen]

6. Rollie Fingers

[OneBlueSky]

7. PeeWee Reese . . .

of the wonderful, marvelous, unsurpassed Dodgers of Brooklyn . . . :)

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. Bake McBride

Thought you might appreciate that one!

OTHERS:
Yancy Thigpen
Oral Herscheiser (oral! huhuh)
Lynn Dickey
Sixto Lezcano
Dick Trickle
Bjorn Nitmo
Franz Klammer
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala

[Dover]

10. Babe

Never heard how he got that name. But the candy bar company did a killing.

[HEyHEY]

11. Tiger WIlliams

[Blue-Jay]

13. Albert Pujols

Poo Holes. heh heh heh heh heh

[Dover]

14. Mohammed Ali

.eom

[HEyHEY]

15. Hap Day

[XNASA]

16. Dick Trickle

Are NASCAR drivers athletes?

[Blue-Jay]

19. I had dick trickle once.

penicillin worked wonders for it.

[fob]

30. What's that CIA watermark in the background of that picture?

[XNASA]

34. Cameras In Action

Not the other CIA.

[fob]

41. Riiight, NOT the OTHER one ; )

[Red State Rebel]

47. Actually met Dick once...

could hardly keep a straight face after the introduction. He was a very nice person tho.

[jmowreader]

61. I think they're athletes

Yesterday I was driving the back of the building before coming to work. We're getting new gutters because our old ones are shot; one of the gutter crew trucks has this bumper sticker on it:

Racing Makes My Dick Trickle

Obviously the obscenity laws in this state don't apply to racing-related items.

[MissMillie]

17. Chi Chi Rodrriguez

I love how WKRP's Les Nesman used to mispronounce it.

[tridim]

18. Cookie Rojas

Royals player from the 70's.

[Worst Username Ever]

20. Bob Walk (he was a pitcher!)

[jakefrep]

21. My favorite cyclists...

Djamoldin Abdujaparov
Jesper Skibby

And some soccer players:

Stern John
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink
Lomana Tresor LuaLua
Ellery Cairo

[arwalden]

22. Peek-A-Boo Street

(Picabo Street)

[underpants]

23. World B. Free

definitely

[BringEmOn]

24. Picaboo Street

Milton Bradley

[BringEmOn]

25. Yogi Berra

[LSdemocrat]

26. Randy "Big Unit" Johnson

[Blue-Jay]

27. Pete LaCock

http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lacocpe01.shtml

[GOPisEvil]

28. Dick Pole

http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/poledi01.shtml

[KamaAina]

29. Shooty Babbitt

briefly up with the A's (I saw him in the minors, in Waterbury, Conn., and no, Phil Giordano was not there!), and now, apparently, a scout for one of those cheesy expansion teams.

[Aristus]

31. Bronko Nagurski. That is the apotheosis of the tough football

player name.

Gay Blanda isn't. but it's a great and interesting athlete name.

[KurtNYC]

32. Bart Starr

and for my inner Beavis-and-Butthead....

Dick Butkis (heh heh heh)

Oh and if horses count as athletes how about : Peace Rules!

[terrya]

33. Sammy Sosa

[Tikki]

35. Tony Boddie...

...always called him 'Tiny Body'...which, of course, he did not have. ;)

[ThreeCatNight]

36. Mooky Wilson...

I just like saying it....
Mookey...Mooky...Mooky.

[MyUncle]

50. M-O-O-K-I-E, please, my favorite Met.

[UdoKier]

37. Joe Namath.

When I was a kid, I thought he was "Joan Amith"

[regularguy]

38. God Shamgod

Juaquin Anduhar
Heathcliff Slocumb

[Richardo]

39. Boog Powell

[matcom]

40. "He Hate Me"

:D

[jmags]

43. Damn!

Beat me to the punch.

[Magrittes Pipe]

62. *ahem*

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=1514389&mesg_id=1514397&page=

[amerikat]

42. Blue Moon Odum

Oakland A's pitcher

[lpbk2713]

44. Y A Tittle, Booger McFarland ................ n/t

[Avalux]

45. R.U. Fastinov

created by me a la NHL 2003. :bounce:

[St. Jarvitude]

46. Milton Bradley

I loved the OF tandem of Milton Bradley and Coco Crisp in Cleveland.

[WindRavenX]

48. Catfish Hunter

Derek Jeter...it just sounds cool
VonPoppel (pitcher for the Rangers, I think)

[enigmatic]

49. I'm proud to say as a fantatical Clevo Sports fan..

the my home town has the Holy Trinity of sports names:

Former Cleveland Cavalier "World B. Free"

Cleveland Indians CF "Coco Crisp"

and the GOD of sports names:

Former Cleveland Browns RB "Ben Gay"

[MyUncle]

51. Howard Johnson

[Parrcrow]

52. Oil Can Boyd -- SCAB!!! but a cool nickname.

[jpgray]

53. Soda Popinski

[SmileyBoy]

54. Jarvis Redwine

Former Minnesota Viking.

[GernBlanston]

55. Some of my faves were already mentioned...

Bake McBride
God Shamgod
Jimmy Floyd Hasslebaink (Chelsea BAD... Liverpool GOOD)

I was always partial to Dikembe Mutombo as well... of if you prefer, his full name:

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo

Now try it, using his title and awards!

Former Atlanta Hawks Center and 3 Time NBA Defensive Player of the Year Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacque Wamutombo!

Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? :P

[Djinn]

56. Can not believe that no-one mentioned

Misty Hyman.

I worked in media monitoring during the Sydney Olympics and this chick was a fav around the office...still can't see how her folks thought that with a surname like Hyman giving their kids a first name that's also an adjective would be a good idea.

[kodi]

57. Kip Kano, could that man run, too.

some great mile/1500m races in the 60's with him jim ryan, and marty liquori.

[Swamp Rat]

58. Pele

... of the "beautiful game."

[Donkeyboy75]

59. Johnny Dickshot

30s and 40s baseball player. Even worse, his nickname was "Ugly."

http://www.baseball-reference.com/d/dicksjo01.shtml

I once worked in the same department as a guy with the last name "Dikshit"

[montana_hazeleyes]

60. Gotta give a mention to

Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters.