Win Rollie Fingers’ New Book!

In honor of the great interview Rollie Fingers blessed us with a few weeks ago, we decided to put together a little contest. We have one copy of Rollie’s Follies: A Hall of Fame Revue of Lists and Lore, Stories and Stats from Baseball’s Most Famous Moustache just waiting to be read by one lucky Wright Stache fan. That fan could be you – that is of course if you have the necessary photoshop skills.

Your mission: Photoshop together your best picture of David Wright sporting a Rollie Fingers-esque mustache. Once you’ve completed your masterpiece, send it in an email to contact [at] thewrightstache [dot] com (formatted like an actual email address of course…we wrote it that way to deter pesky spammers). We’ll post the best entries here on the site and let our fans pick the winner – who we’ll promptly mail the book to. We’ll accept entries up until Monday, June 29th.

Good luck and may the best stache win!

Rollie Fingers Chats with The Wright Stache

Legendary Hall of Fame relief pitcher Rollie Fingers recently came out with a new book entitled Rollie’s Follies: A Hall of Fame Revue of Lists and Lore, Stories and Stats from Baseball’s Most Famous Moustache. The book is, like the title says, a collection of some of Rollie’s favorite stories and statistics that he learned of or experienced during his famed 17 year career in baseball. Besides being one of the greatest relief pitchers to ever play the game, Rollie easily solidified himself as having one of the greatest, if not the greatest mustache in baseball history. He kindly spoke with The Wright Stache’s very own Teufel Stubble about the new book, baseball, and of course…mustaches. Check out the conversation below:

TWS: Maybe we’ll start out talking about the book a bit.  The book has a lot of anecdotes, the lighter side of baseball, players joking around and things like that.  Do you have one favorite story from the book?

RF: Probably the one about striking out Johnny Bench in the World Series on the fake pitchout.  Even today people come up to me and ask me “were you the guy pitching on the mound when Bench was hitting and you struck him out on the fake pitchout”.  That story is in the book.  Johnny and I are real good friends.  I never bring it up to him unless he brings it up first.
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Poll: Which Stache is the Wright Stache?

It’s time to address a very important subject, kids.  Exactly what type of mustache should David Wright grow?  Of course, much of this is contingent on him having the fully bevy of staches at his disposal.  If he is one of the millions of men with weak connectors (myself, shamefully, included), then the Fu Manchu may not be a viable option.  But let’s assume that David is a six-tool player (hitting, hitting for power, speed, fielding, throwing and mustache growing) and can grow anything that he sets his mind to.

Polls are open until the end of next week, so forward this to all of your friends and encourage them to vote.  Make your voices heard.  The success of the Mets demands it!

A Mixed Bag of Feedback

Yesterday marked the first full day of our movement: an uphill battle that we’re certain will be met with challenges of varying degrees and intensities. We fear not. Throughout the day, we received a mixed-bag of feedback from folks of all walks of life. There were those that showed nothing but support; martyrs who were ready to die for our cause. For that, we are truly grateful. There were those that were angry: People who took the stache in vain and shouted “witchcraft” and “blasphemy”. There were some that were downright confused, conflicted, or disturbed by the notion of creating an entire movement behind an individual’s future mustache. And there were some who simply scoffed at the thought of such a ludicrous challenge.

Towards those, we confidently smile. Read more »