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Nicknames: they're a colorful part of baseball history: from "Hammerin' Hank" to "The Splendid Splinter", monikers have added a special touch to the national pastime.
THERE IS SOMETHING MISSING from baseball these days and it's easy to pin a name on it. Or rather, nobody bothers to come up with a name and that's the problem. Whatever happened to baseball's colorful nicknames?
Despite the humorous efforts of ESPN's Chris Berman, whose wordplay shtick has worn thin, nicknames just aren't as popular anymore in baseball. It probably has more to do with the style of today's baseball writers than anything else, yet one wonders if the business-like approach by today's players even sparks the creation of clever monickers.
Why, for instance, didn't Cal Ripken Jr. have a nickname something akin to "The Iron Horse" that sports ...
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