Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for April 17, 2016

The ultimate nickname:Bob “Boom-shacka-lacka” Apodaca.

Best one I ever heard was for a college basketball player named Jacek Duda. Teammates called him “Zipadee.”

Boom Boom GeoffrionBread Man Panarin

Two hockey greats.

Bert “Be Home” Blyleven

“Beast Mode” = Marshawn Lynch

@p51strega Sorry, but Pat “Little Ball of Hate” Verbeek and “Cowboy” Bill Plett supplant Panarin. Sorry Bruins fans, but you can’t give that moniker to Marchand.

Jeff Leonard – “Penitentiary Face”!

Can’t remember who it was but an old-time baseball player had the nickname “Death To Flying Objects.” I think Pepper Martin was “The Wild Horse of the Osage.”

Bob Ferguson was known as Death to Flying Things…

The Bus. Take the Bus. (Jerome Bettis)

“Clams” Castino. Late Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan hung that one on John Castino of the Minnesota Twinkies.

Mitch Wild Thing Williams and how about Sam Mayday Malone? (since the hall isn’t real, surely the players don’t have to be)

’Mean" Joe Green.

‘Wilt the Stilt’ Chamberland.

“The Juice is on the loose!” …actually O.J.’s still penned-up in prison ;-)