Some of the more unique negro league nicknames:
• Cool Papa Bell
• Jew Baby Bennette... maybe the most culturally insensitive, but not so unique since it was used for multiple players
• Wooger Beverly
• Barney "Brinquitos" Brown (~Bouncy)
• Willard Brown... was Home Run Brown in the states, but "Esse Hombre" (~That Man) in Puerto Rico
• Black Bottom Buford
• Bill "Dr. Jekyll" Cooper... who changed personalities when he stepped on the field as a college football star
• Alex "Murder Man" Crumbley
• Peanuts "Nyassas" Davis... I assume he was nicknamed for the lovebird, not coincidentally, he died young of a STD
• Trees "Tall Papa" Duncan... a 6'6" pitcher with two cool nicknames
• Bill "Gray Ghost" Evans
• Cocaina Garcia... "his pitching was like giving the batters a dose of cocaine and putting them to sleep"
• House Lady Harmon
• Chick "Popsicle" Harris, aka "Moochie"
• Byron "Jew Baby" Johnson
• Benny "Hoghead" Jones
• Cecil "Aspirin Tablet Man" Kaiser
• Rogelio "Ice Cream" Linares
• "El Cucharo" John Henry Lloyd (~The Tablespoon) because of the way the infielder could dig grounders out of the dirt
• Bang Long
• Cando "Police Car" Lopez... referred to his speed
• One-wing Maddox... no information
• "Dr. Cyclops" Max Manning,,, due to his thick glasses
• Terris McDuffie was "Terris the Terrible", but called "Elmer the Great" by newspaper writers after a 1933 baseball movie
• Clyde "The Dude" Parris
• Leonard "Fatty" Pigg... a 5'9", 230 lb. catcher
• Willie Powell had at least five documented nicknames, but my favorite was "Pigmeat"
• Donald "Andy Gump" Reeves was compared to the cartoon character with no chin
• Skindown Robinson... no information
• Kissing Bug Rose... no information
• Louis "Big Bertha" Santop... after the German's WWI long-range artillery piece
• Chino Smith... you can guess what his eyes looked like
• Darknight Smith
• Ed "Stainless" Steele
• George "Never" Sweatt
• Jelly "Satan" Taylor was said to play like the devil
• Walter "Banzai" Thomas
• Hank "Ametralladora" Thompson (~Machine Gun)
• "The Catskill Wild Man" Edsall Walker
• Frank "The Weasel" Warfield... was unpopular, caustic, always carried a knife, and bit off part of Oliver Marcelle's nose
• Jimmy "Seabiscuit" Wilkes
• Jud "Boojum" Wilson... so called because of the sound his line drives made striking the outfield wall
• "The Mysterious Shadow" Laymon Yokely... from a unique pitching windup, but was also known as "Corner Pocket"