Carlester Crumpler, now thats a Defensive Lineman!
I can’t believe a Yankee fan is the first to say:
Mookie Wilson
Here’s the chorus of the Dave Frishberg son “Van Lingle Mungo”, it seems somewhat appropriate to post it here.
Augie Bergamo, Sigmund Jakooki,
Big Johnny Mize and Barney McCoskey,
Hal Trosky. John Antonelli, Ferris Fain,
Frankie Crosetti, Johnny Sain.
Harry Brecheen and Lou Boudreau,
Frankie Gusteen and Claude Passeau.
Eddie Brizinski, Ernie Lombardi,
Huey Mulcahi…
Van Lingle Mungo…
Bucky Dent (baseball)
Jock Jones (football)
Dante Calabria (former UNC basketball player)
and everybody’s favorite Nascar driver…
Dick Trickle
Yeah, too bad he’s a tight end. For the Viqueens. That guy missed his calling.
Zenon Andrusyshyn was a kicker at UCLA, not Syracuse and he was burned in effigy after he missed an extra point and had two field goals blocked in a game against USC. It was the one that USC won because of a certain guy’s long touchdown run in the closing minutes.
He went on to a long career in the CFL.
Bartolo Colon, Billy Koch, Jason Isringhausen, Troy Percival, Ramiro Mendoza, Esteban Loaiza, Charles Nagy, Barry Zito, Ryan Rupe… Pitchers always have some great names (funny that only AL pitchers are on this list)
To expand beyond our North/Central American borders, I must say that Pieter van den Hoogenbrand and Diego Maradona are also excellent names.
For really, really, really long names, you can’t beat the Sri Lankan national cricket team.
Some recent examples:
Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas
Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene
Mapa Rallalage Chandima Niroshan Bandaratilake
Handunnettige Deepthi Priyantha Kumar Dharmasena
Panagodage Don Ruchira Laksiri Perera
Asiri Viswanath Prasanna Jayawardene
Romesh Shantha Kaluwitharana
In one-dayers, these players actually have their (last) names on the backs of their shirts. Imagine sticking “Bandaratilake” or “Kaluwitharana” on a shirt–the names go towards each elbow.
Rance Mulliniks
Best hockey name: Bart Crashley
Worst football name: Turdell Middleton
I forgot pitching coach Dick Pole. I wish that was my name 
The names keep coming to me - I was looking up Baskerville because I wasn’t sure which school he played for, and I found this. How did I miss it when it happened?
Baskerville Holmes
Age: 32
member of Memphis State’s 1985 Final Four team; tied for the lead in games played at the school with 132, scoring 1,112 points in his four-year college career; of a gun shot from an apparent murder-suicide with his girlfriend
Died: Memphis, Tenn., March 18, 1997
Well, I don’t watch stick-and-ball sports, but here’s some from racing that are fun to say:
Greg Zipadelli (NASCAR crew chief, aka Zippy; sounds like a cartoon character)
Dario Franchitti (CART driver)
Helio Castroneves (CART driver, pronounced Hee lee oh Cass troe nev ez)
Mika Hakkinen (F1 driver)
Cristiano Da Matta (CART driver - what’s da matta wit’ you?)
Memo Gidley (CART driver – I think he’s American; named after a Post-it note??? Possibly pronounced Mee-mo, but in my mind it’s memo)
Jerry Nadeau (NASCAR driver – just because there are so many ways to mispronounce his last name. My favorite is to make it rhyme with “radio”)
Sterling Marlin (NASCAR driver whose name means Silver Fish)
Buckshot Jones (NASCAR driver)
How can you do race drivers and not mention Dick Trickle?
Manduck, I would have mentioned the Great DT but xizor got to him first
Serdna Agarralag
(Harry Caray fans will understand)
Quinton McCracken
Ryne Sandberg (I like the spelling)
Warren Spahn (I think “Spawn”)
Paladine- Glenallen Hill sounds like a wine. 
Rocky Colavito
Tito Francona
Vada Pinson
Bake McBride
Blue Moon Odom
Bo Belinsky
Wally Moon
Cookie Rojas
As long as Rance Mulliniks has been mentioned, let’s not forget his platoon partner, Garth Iorg, and his brother Dane Iorg.
Oil Can Boyd was a classic.
I always liked Satchel Paige.
And there’s:
Chief Bender
Harry Hooper
Buddy Biancalana
Cholly Naranjo
Buster Narum
Oscar Gamble
Mackey Sasser
Cannonball Titcomb
Dasher Troy
Urbano Lugo
Nikco Reisgo
And of course, the great giggler of all time: Rusty Kuntz
For top notch nicknames you have Hugh “Losing Pitcher” Mulcahy, who got his nickname because the tickers of games he started always read “Losing Pitcher: Mulcahy.”
It’s actually “Zarley Zalapski”.
I always thought Miroslav Satan should have played for the New Jersey Devils.
I was going to name Rusty Kuntz! And not to be offensive about anyone’s sexual orientation, but I always wondered how much needling Ethan Faggett would have taken from the fans if he’d made it to the big leagues (baseball). He’s still in the minors now, but there’s always hope: Homer Bush (who inspired Yankee fans to chant “We want Bush”) kicked around in the minors for a while before he made it to the majors.
Re nicknames: “Losing Pitcher” Mulcahy had a great nickname. As did Benny “Death to Flying Things” Ayala.
Doug Gwosdz had a pretty neat nickname. He was called “Eyechart”.
Finally, there was the case of Josias Manzanillo, who (STOP READING NOW IF YOU’RE SQUEAMISH) was hit by a line drive and lost a testicle. Compassionate baseball fans everywhere nicknamed him “Half a Manzanillo”. :eek: