Imagine if someone counted the number of mustaches in every year Topps made a baseball card set. Then there could be a line chart to display the mustache trends in baseball through the years.
What year do you think was the height of the most baseball mustaches? Was it when Ryne Sandberg sported a mustache in 1987? Or perhaps sometime during the cRaZy seventies? I’m guessing 1983 was the pinnacle of baseball mustaches. What’s your guess?
Hat tip to the 88 Topps blog. This idea orginated as a comment I left on this post: http://88topps.blogspot.com/2008/08/589-geno-petralli.html
The best baseball moustache of all time was sported by Rollie Finger: http://my.execpc.com/~pjsports/FINGERS/FINGERS85LEAF.jpg
best baseball mustache, yes. But that stache was actually classy in its own way. I would give the award to best baseball stache, as actually whatever the worst looking one is. Because the stache is such an ironic weird thing, the best stache should be the worst one. I don’t know which one I would award that too.
Cartophilliac – How can you walk around with a mustache like that and not feel like a total weirdo? Just askin’. Although, I’m not a man so I don’t really get the male-facial hair relationship thing.