Trivia: place-name nicknames

Below are player nicknames derived from real place-names. You name the player. I think some of these will be very easy and a couple might be pretty hard.

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Without further ado:

Memphis Bill
The Hoosier Thunderbolt
The Binger Banger
The Knight of Kennett Square
The Kentucky Colonel
Gettysburg Eddie
Ozark Ike
The Staten Island Scot
The Goshen Schoolmaster
The Duke of Tralee
Wabash George
Germany

Enjoy!
--David Burkett

[NetShrine]

Memphis Bill - Bill Terry
The Hoosier Thunderbolt - Amos Rusie
The Knight of Kennett Square - Herb Pennock
The Kentucky Colonel - Earl Combs
Gettysburg Eddie - Eddie Plank
Ozark Ike - Gus Zernial
The Staten Island Scot - Bobby Thomson
The Goshen Schoolmaster - Sam Leever
The Duke of Tralee - Roger Bresnahan

I'll give someone else a shot at the others.

OK, maybe these aren't as difficult as I had hoped.

I'd never heard the Leever or Pennock nicknames until recently. I'll try to keep in mind the depth of the water here from now on.

--Dave B.

[NetShrine]

Don't let little ol' me and my ton of resource materials scare you off!

This is a good thread. Keep it going.

[ChrisCary]

Originally posted by NetShrine


I'll give someone else a shot at the others.

Your generosity is astounding.

The Binger Banger - Bench
Wabash George - George Mullin

A couple of others, while not difficult to be considered trivia

The Fordham Flash
The Commerce Comet
Georgia Peach
Flying Dutchman

[NetShrine]

Originally posted by ChrisCary
Your generosity is astounding.

Chris.

Yours are easy - Frisch, Mantle, Cobb, and Wagner, no?

The only remaining unanswered name among the originals was "Germany" who was, of course, Herman Schaefer.

Here's a few more (I'm not even going to bother making them a quiz anymore so, please, no wagering):

Arky Vaughan
Wahoo Sam Crawford
Vinegar Bend Mizell
Nolan "The Alvin Express" Ryan
Clyde "Pea Ridge" Day
"Parisian Bob" Carruthers
Henry "The Count of Luxembourg" Meine
Pepper "The Wild Horse of the Osage" Martin
Klondike Douglas
Ron "Louisiana Lightning" Guidry
and
Too many Dixies and Texes to list.

There's also more than one Frenchy, Dutch, Swede, Irish, etc. but those seem more about ancestry than an actual place-name.

Of course, there's also Kenesaw Mountain Landis, but that's not technically a nickname.

I'm still looking into "Orlando" Cepeda.

--"Chicago Dave"

[NetShrine]

Here's some more to figure out:

The Cornhusker Express
The Belford Sheriff
The Wild Elk of the Wasatch
The Nashville Narcissus
The Arkansas Hummingbird