What a card: Rollie Fingers returned to action in 1984 after missing the entire 1983 season recovering from a torn muscle in his right forearm that cost him pitching in the 1982 World Series.
My observation on the front: It's just occurring to me now how weird it would feel to carry a handlbar mustache on your face every single day of your life, seeing that curl out of the corner of your eye, every single day of your life. It'd drive me crazy.
More opinion from me: Fingers' Topps cards from 1974-76 were the absolute best when I was kid. Nothing cooler.
Something you might know: Fingers was just the second relief pitcher to win the MVP award when he received the honor in 1981.
Something you might not know: Fingers was born in Ohio, but his father, a steel mill worker, moved the family to California. The family couldn't afford hotels on the trip west so they would sleep in sleeping bags by the side of the road.
My observation on the back: Fingers' father played in the Cardinals chain. One of his roommates was Stan Musial.
The blog wants to speak now: The Pop Culture tab is updated with a rather topical magazine cover.
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