The Oakland A’s recently acquired a player named Boog Powell, and we really need to talk about that. It’s an excellent baseball name and it automatically makes the lineup more fun. We recently had a discussion about player nicknames, but this one sounds like an old classic straight out of golden days gone by.
There’s a reason for that, though. It literally is a classic out of golden days gone by. As you probably know already, the nickname was inspired by the original Boog Powell, an All-Star slugger from the 1960s and 70s who was a favorite of Young Boog’s grandpa.