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It also makes you a kind of romantic at heart.

Now, a humble apology for leaving out these nicknames...

The White Rat. (Whitey Herzog.)
The Commerce Comet. (Mickey Mantle.)
Ol' Stubblebeard. (Burleigh Grimes.)
Dennis the Menace. (Dennis Eckersley.)
Goofy. (Lefty Gomez.)
Father Time. (Satchel Paige.)
The Cuban Cowboy. (Pedro Ramos, a key relief pitcher in the Yankees' 1964 pennant drive.)
The Mighty Mite. (Miller Huggins, who managed the Yankees to their first pennants.)
Lou'siana Lightnin'. (Ron Guidry.)
Ozark Ike. (Gus Zernial, power-hitting Philadelphia-Kansas City A's first baseman - and, as it happens, the man who helped arrange Joe DiMaggio's first meeting with Marilyn Monroe.)
The Peerless Leader. (Frank Chance - the third entry in the famed "Tinker to Evers to Chance")
The Fordham Flash. (Frankie Frisch, a hot infielder for the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals and later the manager of the Cardinals' famed Gas House Gang teams.)
The Big Bear. (Mike Garcia, part of the classic Cleveland Indians starting rotation of 1948-54 with Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and Early Wynn.)
The Brat. (Eddie Stanky.)
Poosh 'Em Up (Tony Lazzeri, infielder on the Yankees' famed "Murderer's Row" 1927 team.)
The Man of Steal. (Rickey Henderson.)
Pudge. (Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk; since bestowed as well upon Texas Rangers catcher Ivan Rodriguez.)
Mex. (Keith Hernandez, who is part Mexican.)
The Whip. (Ewell Blackwell, submarine-style Cincinnati Reds pitcher of the 1940s-1950s - and, unfortunately, the losing pitcher in the game which featured the worst first-inning beating ever taken in baseball history, when in 1952 the Brooklyn Dodgers jumped the Cincinnati Reds for fifteen runs in the first; not only did the Dodgers bat around the order twice, but The Whip - after being sent to a very early shower - suffered the indignity of returning to the team hotel, watching the carnage on television, and then seeing the pitcher who relieved him walk into the hotel moments after he arrived!)
The Flying Dutchman. (Who else? Honus Wagner.)
Jolly Cholly. (Charlie Grimm, banjo-playing, prankish mananger.)