Former Oakland A’s outfielder Nick Swisher returned to the Bay Area this past weekend with his new team (a Chicago White Sox club that swept the Giants at AT&T Park) and a new name.
We knew him in Oakland as “Swish” but now, folks on the South Side call him “Dirty 30.”
Apparently, the nickname was born at Sox Fan Fest before the season and Dirty 30 took the name to Tucson for Spring Training where it stuck.
A couple of Dirty 30 Jersey/T-shirts were spotted at China Basin Sunday and according to Swish (sorry, old habits are hard to break) the Sox team store had been selling them.
A quick browse through the online Sox Shop shows only two Player Shirts for sale… (a #56 Mark Buehrle and sadly, a shirt that should be in the bargain basement bin, the #15 Tad Iguchi model… Iguchi is now a San Diego Padre).
Final evidence this might not be a fad… at least one of Swisher’s personalized bats has Dirty 30, not his birth name, engraved on the barrel.
