1.   Mouse got his nickname because he was small and weedy.

2.   Red got his nickname for his red hair.

3.   And then Little Digger got his nickname Chicky.

4.   And how, you might ask, did Howard Reich get the nickname Hotdog Howie?

5.   Asked how he got his nickname, Virostko said Vince Collier, another competitor from Santa Cruz, had given it to him when he was young.

6.   Born Adrian Thaws, Tricky got his nickname as a teenager.

7.   Blackwell got his nickname because of his unorthodox style, which made him the most feared pitcher of his day.

8.   But he got the nickname right.

9.   But you wonder how he got his nickname.

10.   Chambers got his nickname because he was a prep school graduate.