Talk:List of baseball nicknames

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Before ESPN & Chris Berman, the Atlanta Braves' announcers were calling Bruce Benedict "Eggs." You can't give Chris Berman credit for this nickname. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.84.1.212 (talk) 19:43, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI proposed deletion of a related list article

See this talk page section at the Afd of the List of football (soccer) players by nickname. MickMacNee (talk) 02:18, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Split proposal

The split proposal is because this article is at the time of this edit, 160kb big, hence it is getting too big for the article. Jay Pegg (talk) 13:09, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article enhancement

It would be great to information about how they each got their nicknames. Piano non troppo (talk) 03:47, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It probably would. Do you have some examples? Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 03:58, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

This article is in desparate need of sources for the nicknames of most of the players listed. For the moment I'm putting on a {refimprove} tag, but at some indeterminate time I'll come back and remove any unsourced names. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:37, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen this note at the bottom of the article, but that won't do for sourcing, because it anticipates any edits that might have been made after it was put in the article:

Unless other sourcing is indicated, all nicknames for individual baseball players cited in this article have been verified by inclusion in one of the following authoritative sources

So you're going to make everyone copy sources from the individual articles? Like, to re-prove that George Ruth was called "Babe"? Great. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} 23:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So how are we supposed to keep this page accurate? I made by comment above in response to this edit, to which my immediate reaction was that it must be vandalism, but then looking at the player's name it was plausible that this might have been a nickname. Without sourcing we can't hope to have an accurate article. Sourcing "Babe" is trivial, but there are plenty of other names here that are doubtful, to say the least. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:27, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Buck O'Neil, Managers, Coaches

Somewhere Buck O'Neil's nicknames of Nancy [1] and Cap or Captain should be listed but he never played in the majors. He isn't in the hall but the hall does have the Buck O'Neil award so maybe it fits better there. I also realized [Casey Stengel] isn't listed but I don't have a source for his nickname (it is widely known and it is in his main article). So perhaps someone can find that source and add Casey Stengel to the others list so it just isn't poor ol Buck. 68.102.171.147 (talk) 04:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]