ROLLIE FINGERS RUMORS
Athletics to Pay Tribute to 1973 World Championship Team
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the club’s 1973 World Series title — the second of three consecutive World Championships — Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 vs. Baltimore.
The two-day celebration will feature appearances by players from the 1973 team, including ’73 World Series Most Valuable Player and Hall of Famer Reggie...
Brewers surprise fans with special promotion
MILWAUKEE Roy Nowak woke up for work on Tuesday, not expecting anything out of the ordinary.
But after listening to the news and hearing that the Brewers were doing a surprise giveaway down at Miller Park, giving fans free Chorizo lawn gnomes and tickets to the team's games with San Francisco next week as part of their "Where's Chorizo?" and Spring Madness promotions...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin
May 15, 2012
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Rollie Fingers Still Rocking Handlebar Mustache 40 Years Later
On Friday the Oakland A’s began a two-day celebration of the team’s first World Series championship back in 1972. Former closer Rollie Fingers was on hand and, as you would expect, his famous handlebar mustache was a topic of conversation.
The Hall of Famer claimed that in spring training of 1972, then-A’s owner Charlie Finley offered $300 to any player who grew a mustache...
Rollie Fingers kept handlebar mustache after all
Rollie Fingers figured he would have shaved his signature handlebar mustache by now. He claims he almost did once after losing both games of a doubleheader before changing his mind.
He even had a razor in hand that day. Fingers lost twice at Minnesota on Sept. 11, 1972.
The Hall of Fame closer had big motivation to first grow his facial hair 40 years ago: a $300 offer from then...
Via AP on Fox
April 20, 2012
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Behold...the Rollie Fingers Bobblehead!
Quick question...are bobbleheads getting better or is my taste in baseball tchotchkes getting worse?Both. But that's neither here or there right now.When the Oakland Athletics square off against the Cleveland Indians at home on April 21, the first 10,000 fans are taking home a Rollie Fingers bobblehead as part of the team remembering their 1972 World Series win. Now, you...
Mustachioed Legend Rollie Fingers’ Bobblehead Looks to be Outstanding
The Oakland A’s have designated their April 21st game against the Indians as Rollie Fingers Bobblehead day, and as you can tell by the picture of the real Rollie with his bobbleheaded doppelganger, it truly is a magnificent piece. Any true A’s fans, Rollie Fingers fans, bobblehead collectors, or mustache aficionados will be wanting to get their hands on this beauty.
As an...
RIDING THE DOLPHIN
A's pitcher gets unique tattoo of Rollie Fingers
Yes, you are seeing that correctly. That is Hall of Fame pitcher Rollie Fingers in all of his mustachioed glory, riding a dolphin in front of a rainbow, engraved in ink on Oakland A’s pitcher Dallas Braden’s left upper arm.
Okay, okay, I have serious doubts this is real. For one, its gleam in light reminds me of those temporary tattoos kids can get at Chuck E. Cheese’s....
Marvel At My Mustache, Win a Rollie Fingers Jersey & Fight Cancer
I’m Pat Suley, one of the occasional contributors (and Canadian correspondent) here at Midwest Sports Fans. And for the month of November I’ve been participating in “Movember” where people grow mustaches to raise money for prostate cancer.
I have decided to fashion my glorious lipjacket in the style of baseball’s greatest ‘stache, that of Hall-Of-Famer Rollie Fingers...
Movember MLB Mustache Madness: Former Players, Round 2 - Fingers vs. Vuckovich
Round 2 of the Movember MLB Mustache Madness Former Player bracket is officially under way! We start things off with a clash of two mustachioed pitching titans, both of whom are coming off some of the most lopsided victories in the entire first round.
Rollie Fingers
Fingers easily won the former player relief pitcher matchup by cooking Gossage's goose 92% to 8%. Now...
STACHED AWAY
13 iconic instances of MLB facial hair
In honor of the now playoff-departed John Axford, this week's Lineup Card will focus on some of the best examples of baseball player facial hair of all-time.
1) Rollie Fingers
As I write this, a Google search for "iconic mustache" (no quotes) returns 621,000 results. Among the first five are a Facebook fan page for a band using that name, a page about some college...
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