Of course, MC Hammer aficionados will know that the 54-year-old didn’t take his name from the hand tool, but was given it as a nickname by Hall of Fame baseball player Reggie Jackson while he was working at the Oakland A’s clubhouse as a kid.
“You look a lot like Hammerin’ Hank Aaron and I’m [going to] call you the little Hammer,” Jackson told Hammer - real name Stanley Kirk Burrell - when he was nine.