- TIL Scooter Gennett got his nickname from a childhood incident with the police. Constantly removing his seatbelt while in the car, his mom took him to the police station to scare him into keeping it on. The officer asked him for his name and he replied with "Scooter", taken from the "Muppet Babies". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/scooter_gennett 27 comments baseball