List of Chicago White Sox Nicknames

In the last 100-plus years, the Chicago White Sox have had many players with colorful and memorable nicknames from “Shoeless Joe” Jackson to “Old Aches & Pains” Appling, Minnie the “Cuban Comet” Minoso, “Little Louie” Aparicio, “Black Jack” McDowell, and Frank “The Big Hurt” Thomas. These are some of the best.

*Dick Allen: "Wampum"
*Sandy Alomar: "Iron Pony"
*Luis Aparicio: "Little Louie"
*Luke Appling: "Fumblefoot" or "Kid Boots" or "Old Aches & Pains"
*Cuke Barrows, Roland Barrows: "Cuke"
*Bruno Block, James John Blochowicz: "Bruno"
*Ken Boyer: "Cap" or "Captain"
*Smoky Burgess, Forrest Harrill Burgess: "Smoky"
*Iván Calderón: "Ivan The Terrible"
*Norm Cash: "Stormin’ Norman"
*Eddie Cicotte: "Knuckles"
*Rocky Colavito, Rocco Colavito: "Rocky"
*Eddie Collins: "Cocky"
*Bucky Dent, Russell Earl O’Day: "Bucky" or "Bucky $#&*ing Dent"
*Richard Dotson: "Dot"
*Brian Downing: "Incredible Hulk"
*Red Faber, Urban Clarence Faber: "Red"
*Carlton Fisk: "Pudge"
*Nellie Fox, Jacob Nelson Fox,: "Nellie", "Little Nel", or "The Mighty Mite"
*Freddy Garcia: "Chief"
*Ralph Garr: "Road Runner"
*Kid Gleason, William Gleason: "Kid"
*Goose Gossage, Richard Michael Gossage: "Goose" or "The White Gorilla"
*Bo Jackson, Vincent Edward Jackson: "Bo"
*Joe Jackson:: "Shoeless Joe"
*Ted Kluszewski: "Big Klu"
*Carlos Lee: "El Caballo"
*Ted Lyons: "Sunday Teddy"
*Jack McDowell: "Black Jack"
*Catfish Metkovich, George Michael Metkovich: "Catfish"
*Minnie Miñoso, Saturnino Orestes Armas (Arrieta) Miñoso: "Minnie" or "The Cuban Comet"
*Blue Moon Odom, Johnny Lee Odom: "Blue Moon"
*Magglio Ordóñez: "El Caribe Mayor (The Caribbean Mayor)" or "Mags"
*Tom Paciorek: "Wimpy"
*Bubba Phillips, John Melvin Phillips: "Bubba"
*Billy Pierce: "Billy the Kid"
*Scott Podsednik: "Pods"
*Carlos Quentin: "TCQ"
*Tim Raines: "Rock"
*Alexei Ramirez: "'The Cuban Missile"
*Ray Schalk: "The Cracker"
*Tom Seaver: "Tom Terrific"
*Bill Skowron: "Moose"
*Moose Solters, Julius Joseph Soltesz: "Moose" or "Lemons"
*Nick Swisher: "Dirty Thirty"
*Frank Thomas: "Big Hurt"
*Jim Thome: "Big Jimmy" or "Mr. Incredible"
*Javier Vazquez: "The Silent Assassin"
*Robin Ventura: "Batman"
*Ed Walsh: "Big Ed"
*Skeeter Webb, James Laverne Webb: "Skeeter"
*Hoyt Wilhelm: "Old Sarge"
*Walt Williams: "No Neck"
*Taffy Wright, Taft Shedron Wright:: "Taffy"
*Early Wynn: "Gus"
*Paul Konerko "Paulie"
*Bobby Jenks "Big Bad Bobby Jenks"
*Octavio Dotel "Ol' Dirty"
*Joe Crede "Clutch Norris"
* [Jose Contreras "Commander"

ee also

*Chicago White Sox
*Chicago White Sox all-time roster
*List of Chicago White Sox people
*White Sox award winners and league leaders
*White Sox broadcasters and media
*White Sox managers and ownership
*Detroit Tigers Nicknames
*New York Yankees Nicknames

ources

*Unless other sourcing is indicated, all nicknames cited in this article are verified from one of the following two authoritative sources:
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/ Baseball-Reference]
* [http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ Baseball Almanac]