Rollie Fingers Chats with The Wright Stache

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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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