“First Name” players

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, glenn__davis said:

Dayton Lane Hall.

Thanks to OFFNY for that.

I'd also choose to go by DL.

[glenn__davis]

On the other end of the spectrum there are some players for which both names are always said.

There's a soccer  player in Europe named Dennis Odoi. And always, always the commentators refer to him as "Dennis Odoi".  It's the weirdest thing and I wonder how something like that comes to be.

[George Zuverink]

We old-timers would make a pitch for Gus.

[btownoriole]

Elrod

[Too Tall]

If you remember 1954, there was Scrap Iron and The Rope!

[duffman003]

Should Buck count since it's his nickname? 

Is it true that he got the nickname because he walked around the locker room buck naked?

[jdwilde1]

Tippy

[George Zuverink]

2 hours ago, Too Tall said:

If you remember 1954, there was Scrap Iron and The Rope!

 Clint Courtney and Bobby Boyd

[BRobinsonfan]

4 hours ago, sevastras said:

Lew-Which is said to have been the actual name of Satan but people of the Bible refused to let that name come from their mouth. 

Well played sir, well played.  

[SteveA]

Ubaldo Jiminez was far more often referred to by "Ubaldo" than by his last name.

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Ubaldo Jiminez was far more often referred to by "Ubaldo" than by his last name.

Yea, but it was like this.

[jabba72]

4 hours ago, duffman003 said:

Should Buck count since it's his nickname? 

Is it true that he got the nickname because he walked around the locker room buck naked?

Thats what I heard on a Tigers telecast. That Buck got his name from always wearing a towel and nothing else in the clubhouse. 

[GuidoSarducci]

Come way may, I think Rougned Odor has already cemented himself in Orioles history on a first name basis.    The chance we have another Rougned on the roster seems pretty slim to me.  Unless maybe he has a kid and names him Rougned Jr. and he somehow ends up on the Orioles.

I think the same goes for some guys with odd names like Chance.

From the hall-of-shame list I would also nominate:
Albert
Rafael
Sidney

 

[GuidoSarducci]

7 hours ago, George Zuverink said:

We old-timers would make a pitch for Gus

Pitching or catching?

 

[AnythingO's]

7 hours ago, George Zuverink said:

We old-timers would make a pitch for Gus.

How has Diamond Jim not been mentioned????