Where is the creativity in nicknames?

Compare these nicknames to the names you see today in baseball:

Back then:

Willie ‘The Say Hey Kid’ Mays

Dizzy Dean

Joe ‘Ducky’ Medwick

Red ‘The Galloping Ghost’ Grange

Joe ‘The Yankee Clipper’ DiMaggio

Ted ‘The Splendid Splinter’ Williams

‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson

‘Goose’ Gossage

Wade ‘Chicken Man’ Boggs

Ty ‘The Georgia Peach’ Cobb

and my favourites:  Babe ‘The Sultan of Swat’ Ruth and Dennis ‘Oil Can’ Boyd

Nowadays, here are what we have to choose from:

Jeremy ‘Bondo’ Bonderman

Mike ‘Cammy’ Cameron

Ken ‘Junior’ Griffey, Jr.

Nook ‘Nook’ Logan

Orlando ‘O-dog’ Hudson

Alex ‘A-rod’ Rodriguez

There are some cool ones I admit:

Hideki ‘Godzilla’ Matsui

Travis ‘Pronk’ Hafner

Frank ‘The Big Hurt’ Thomas

David ‘Big Papi’ Ortiz

Ivan ‘Pudge’ Rodriguez

But really, the creativity has gone.  I think baseball was a much more ‘romantic’ thing back in the early days when the only thing you knew about the games and players you had to read in the papers.  Naturally these players were glorified and the writers intended to make heroes out of these players for the general population that were going through depressions, wars, etc.  Today, with the ability to see every game real time, there’s not as much need for write-ups and ‘storification’ of games in the papers.