Off-Topic Forum

Anyone named "Lefty" is probably a ballplayer, and a pretty good one. Grove, Gomez, Steve Carlton. In football, it's Bronko Nagurski (and Bronco Horvath in hockey, but he sounds like he should be a football player too).

It's neither here nor there, but I think it is his grandson Critter played college hockey. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=67778

Someone that sat next to me at a USHL game said he was, so take that with a grain of salt.

Mudcat and Catfish.

Two more pitchers that I'd prefer not to face.

My favorite baseball name was Van Lingo Mungo. He even made it into an old baseball song.

Corey Kluber is either a ball player or a mob enforcer

Hammerin Hank

Killer- killabrew

Heat - nolan ryan

Vacuum cleaner- Stan Musial

Babe-  Babe Ruth 

Mr. Sunshine - not very scary nickname (Ernie Banks)

Three Finger Brown - did he have a real name? (Mordecai Brown)

Kiki Cuyler - pronounced like sky sky (Hazen Cuyler)

The Red Baron - (Rick Sutcliffe)

The Hawk - (Andre Dawson)

The Professor - (Greg Maddux)

Sweet Swinging Billy Williams 

Ok so those who played for the Cubs didn't have the scariest of nicknames.

Stern John (soccer) is a good athlete's name.  Now he's a manager, which may be even better.

Lou Gehrig's lesser known nickname is "Biscuit Pants". 

Not sure I want to know where that came from. I'll stick with Iron Horse.