Earlier this week, the White Sox and the other 29 big-league clubs announced many of the nicknames — reflecting the players’ “passions, backgrounds and interests” — that will appear on the back of their jerseys during the third annual Players’ Weekend, August 23–25.
For example, Yoán Moncada will don YO-YO, Tim Anderson TA7, José Abreu MAL TIEMPO, Eloy Jiménez THE BIG BABY, Evan Marshall FORGETTING SARAH and Yolmer Sánchez NOAH ALAN.
This made us wonder, what if Players’ Weekend existed in years past? So, here are 30 former Sox players along with one man’s opinion about what they might have chosen as monikers:
* Luis Aparicio: LITTLE LOOIE
* Luke Appling: OLD ACHES AND PAINS
* Harold Baines: EVIDENTLY
* Mark Buehrle: MR.