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 Sr.: "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"
 * José Contreras: "Commander"
 * Joe Crede: "Clutch Norris"
 * Bucky Dent, Russell Earl O’Day: "Bucky" or "Bucky 'Fucking' Dent"
 * Octavio Dotel: "Ol' Dirty"
 * 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 García: "Chief"
 * Ralph Garr: "Road Runner"
 * Kid Gleason, William Gleason: "Kid"
 * Goose Gossage, Richard Michael Gossage: "Goose" or "The White Gorilla"
 * Craig Grebeck: "The Little Hurt"
 * Orlando Hernández: "El Duque"
 * Bo Jackson, Vincent Edward Jackson: "Bo"
 * Joe Jackson: "Shoeless Joe"
 * Bobby Jenks: "Big Bad Bobby Jenks"
 * Lance Johnson: "One Dog"
 * Ron Karkovice: “The Officer”
 * Ted Kluszewski: "Big Klu"
 * Paul Konerko: "Paulie"
 * Carlos Lee: "El Caballo"
 * Ted Lyons: "Sunday Teddy"
 * Nick Madrigal: "Nicky Two Strikes"
 * Jack McDowell: "Black Jack"
 * Catfish Metkovich, George Michael Metkovich: "Catfish"
 * Minnie Miñoso, Saturnino Orestes Armas (Arrieta) Miñoso: "Minnie" or "The Cuban Comet"
 * Dave Nicholson, "Big Nick"
 * Blue Moon Odom, Johnny Lee Odom: "Blue Moon"
 * Magglio Ordóñez: "El Caribe Mayor (The Caribbean Mayor)" or "Mags"
 * Tom Paciorek: "Wimpy"
 * Donn Pall: "The Pope"
 * Herbert Perry: "The Milkman"
 * Bubba Phillips, John Melvin Phillips: "Bubba"
 * Billy Pierce: "Billy the Kid"
 * Scott Podsednik: "Pods"
 * Carlos Quentin: "TCQ"
 * Tim Raines: "Rock"
 * Alexei Ramírez: "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: "The Big Hurt"
 * Jim Thome: "Big Jimmy" or "Mr. Incredible"
 * Javier Vázquez: "The Silent Assassin"
 * Robin Ventura: "Batman"
 * Dayán Viciedo: "The Tank"
 * 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"