A baseball thing

Catfish Hunter

I like to trot around the internet and read about the old days of baseball. Yesterday I encountered this information in Wikipedia about Jim "Catfish" Hunter:

Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City A's, gave Hunter the nickname "Catfish" in 1965 for no reason other than that he thought his new pitcher needed a flashy nickname.

Duh. The man looks like a catfish. Check out that mugshot. "No reason"?