Nickname
His nickname, "Nig", is often adjudged to be a racist reference to his dark complexion. In the first half of the 20th Century, before the game was integrated, ballplayers with a dark complexion were sometimes nicknamed "Nig." In addition to Cuppy, the following other major league players bore the nickname: Johnny Beazley (1941–49), Joe Berry (1921–22), Bobby Bragan (1940–48), Nig Clarke (1905-1920), Nig Fuller (1902), Johnny Grabowski (1923–31), Don Gutteridge (1936–1948), Nig Lipscomb (1937), Charlie Niebergall (1921–24), Nig Perrine (1907), and Frank Smith (1904–15).
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)