Old Timey Baseball Players and Their Amusing Nicknames

You’ve probably seen those creepy sepia photos of baseball players from the 1880s. Blank expressions and dead, hollow eyes were all the rage, making baseball player portraits interchangeable with the era’s other national pastime of corpse photography. The only way you can tell that the people in those photos are baseball players and not fancied up dead people are their uniforms made of thick, non-breathable fabrics, and the amusing physical deformities that gave the players their unique nicknames.

 

Jed “One Leg” McGinty

 

Phillip “One Finger On Each Hand” Jenkins

 

Earless Perkins

 

Footless Roy Warbles

 

Hat Matthews (he wore a top hat instead of a baseball cap)

 

Pip “Hand For a Foot” MacElroy

 

Mac “Foot For a Hand” Pipelroy

 

Gangrenous Gregory Carouthers

 

Diamond Jimmy Diamond

 

Joey “The Robot” Metalman

 

“Alien” Zort Zlyzzx 

 

“Tiny” Daniel Davenport 

 

Christy “Curiously High Voice and Won’t Change in Front of the Other Players” Donahue

 

Normal Norman Butterworth

 

Nickname Watkins*

 

*Watkins was cursed with a series of birthmarks on his forearms and face that spelled out what appeared to be the word “nickname,” leading to his nickname, Nickname. Also, his birth name was really Nickname, his parents having been inspired by his birthmarks.