Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.

The title refers to the nickname given his wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board of Canada.

The town of Abensberg marks the start of the Deutsche Hopfenstraße ( German Hops Road ), a nickname given to the Bundesstraße 301, a German federal highway which runs through the heartland of Germany's hops-growing industry, ending in Freising.

* Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauly.

The name itself may have originated as a nickname given to women who carried water to men on the battlefield during the war.

One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.

He was soon given his nickname Caligula, meaning " little ( soldier's ) boot " in Latin, after the small boots he wore as part of his uniform.

Young Louis's nickname among family and friends was " Dickie ", notable in that " Richard " was not among his given names.

Nevertheless, the " bellies of leather " ( the nickname given to the legionnaires by the Russians because of their bandolier on their stomachs ), behaved bravely.

Here, he was given his nickname “ Grien .” This name foremost comes from his preference to the color green, and secondly to distinguish him from the three other Hans ’ in the apprenticeship.

* GM Iron Duke engine, the nickname given to a 151 cid ( cubic inch displacement ) 4-cylinder internal combustion engine used in many 1980s-era General Motors automobiles, pickup trucks, and the United States Postal Service's LLV Mail trucks

" Due to the latter instrument, Brown was given his first nickname, " Music Box ".

Lollard, Lollardi or Loller was the popular derogatory nickname given to those without an academic background, educated if at all only in English, who were reputed to follow the teachings of John Wycliffe in particular, and were certainly considerably energized by the translation of the Bible into the English language.

His second name, Lambert, sometimes erroneously considered to be a nickname, was given to him as a reference to the cult of Saint Lambert.

After an incident where her dress caught fire on an iron grate when she was about three, her mother began dressing her in boys ' pants, and she was given the nickname " Jimmy " from the comic strip, Little Jimmy.

The nickname was given to the " Black Cavalry " by the Native American tribes they fought.

Søren was given the nickname " Abel Treating " ( Norwegian: " Abel Spandabel ").

From 1972 through 1980, the team nickname was officially " Oakland A's ," although, during that time, the Commissioner's Trophy, given out annually to the winner of baseball's World Series, still listed the team's name as the " Oakland Athletics " on the gold-plated pennant representing the Oakland franchise.

Supposedly, Stuyvesant was given the nickname " Old Silver Leg " because he used a stick of wood driven full of silver bands as a prosthetic limb.

Spray was an internal nickname given to the NME boss character by the developers.

The column is called " The Pop of King ", a play on the nickname " The King of Pop " commonly given to Michael Jackson.

He was given the nickname " Bloody Sam " owing to the violence in his films.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi had been given the nickname Kozaru, meaning " little monkey ", from his lord Oda Nobunaga because his facial features and skinny form resembled that of a monkey.

His nickname was " Monkey " ( Saru ), allegedly given by Oda Nobunaga because of his facial resemblance to a monkey.

However, he is seen in all of the group's music videos ; on the DVD released in 2007, he is given the nickname " Buster Sidebury ".

This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline " Found on the Great White Way " in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

The journalistic nickname was inspired by the millions of lights on theater marquees and billboard advertisements that illuminate the area.

These became the homes of civil servants, officers, bankers, artists and politicians among others, and earned the area the nickname " Millionaires ' Quarter " although its official designation was Friedrichvorstadt ( Friedrich's Suburb ), or alternatively the Tiergartenviertel ( Tiergarten Quarter ).

Rhode Island's official nickname is " The Ocean State ," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14 % of its total area.

These firms slowly replaced the orchards which gave the area its initial nickname, the Valley of Heart's Delight.

The gulf is known by the nickname " Pirate Alley " due to the large amount of pirate activity in the area.

Abruzzo's wealth of castles and medieval towns, especially around the town of L ' Aquila, has earned it in some quarters the nickname of " Abruzzoshire ", by analogy with the " Chiantishire ", nickname sometimes used to refer to the Chianti area of Tuscany, but Abruzzo is still off the beaten path for most visitors to Italy.

The turn of the century brought the substantial growth that gave Birmingham the nickname " The Magic City " as the downtown area developed from a low-rise commercial and residential district into a busy grid of neoclassical mid-rise and high-rise buildings and busy streetcar lines.

The North Shore Line which gave the area its nickname started at Church Street in Evanston and continued up to Waukegan.

A common nickname for Shandong is Qílǔ (), after the States of Qi and Lu that existed in the area during the Spring and Autumn Period.

The nickname the " Crossroads of the Southwest " stems from the area having been part of an important transportation route in the settling, development and growth of the Great Southwest.

This area of town is the location of the unique Sleeping Giant hill formation that is the source of the town's nickname.

A popular nickname for the area was " Gatorville.

It is believed by some area residents that the town got its nickname " The Hub City " because the two railroads intersected near the Ohio and Indiana state line.

The nickname Island City has to do with a power canal which diverts a portion of the Kalamazoo River around the downtown area, causing it to be an island.

Today, Hoboken's unofficial nickname is now the " Mile Square City ", but it actually covers an area of two square miles when including the under-water parts in the Hudson River.

The large amount of coal extracted from the Nelsonville area earned Nelsonville the nickname " Little City of Black Diamonds.

The Doonhamers is also the nickname of Queen of the South who represent Dumfries and the surrounding area in the Scottish Football League.

In December of 1753, George Washington and Christopher Gist came through the area, giving it the nickname " Murdering Town " after being shot at by local Natives.

First incorporated as a borough on June 7, 1889, Jeannette earned the nickname as " the glass city " in recognition of the numerous glass plants founded in the area, with those factories contributing to the city's original stature as the first large manufacturing town in Westmoreland County.

Spokane's official nickname is the " Lilac City ", named after the flowers that have flourished since their introduction to the area in the early 20th century.

Originally named Schleisingerville after the founder, state senator Baruch Schleisinger ( Weil ) in 1857, it was shortened during the 1920s to Slinger, a nickname which was already in common usage by the area residents.

** A nickname for the Pittsburgh area and a phrase used commonly in local culture

Nowadays, the name Nichols or Nichols Field ( along with Villamor ) is used as an accepted nickname for the area surrounding it.