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This is a list of nicknames of Major League Baseball teams and players. It includes a complete list of nicknames of players in the Baseball Hall of Fame, a list of nicknames of current players, nicknames of popular players who have played for each major league team, and lists of nicknames grouped into particular categories (e.g., ethnic nicknames, personality trait nicknames etc.). [1]
Nickname given due to his long hair and thick beard resembling a common depiction of Jesus: Toughie [299] Frank Stojack: Nickname given for never having been hurt on the field throughout his collegiate career and first year in the NFL. Tuel Time [300] Jeff Tuel: A play on the show-within-a-show Tool Time on the 1990s sitcom Home Improvement ...
"Triple J" (Jamal Mashburn, Jason Kidd and Jimmy Jackson) [232] Detroit Pistons – The "Bad Boys" [ 233 ] (The Bad Boys employs extreme physical style of play and psychological warfare against enemy teams.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother, Ritva, [2] and a Swedish father, Birger, [3] on 1 June 1979. [4] [5] [2] He has one sister.[2] [6] He grew up in Edsbyn until he was seven years old, when his family moved back to Stockholm.
[13] [14] [15] Some nicknames have been strongly promulgated and contested by various artists, [16] and occasionally disowned or played down by their subjects. [17] Some notable honorific nicknames are in general usage and commonly identified with particular individuals.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation was created as a private company limited by guarantee in 2008, [8] and was registered as a charity in 2009 [9] by people at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory who had noticed a decline in the number and skills of young people applying for computer science courses.