(Photo: Topps 1975 Baseball Card)

STEVE STONE

Of course we all remember Steve Stone's long run as the TV color man for the Cubs, but he also pitched for them three seasons in the mid 70s (74-76). The Cubs acquired him from the White Sox (along with catcher Steve Swisher) for Ron Santo, who toiled away painfully on the South Side in his last big league season. Stone's best season with the Cubs was 1975 when he won 12 games. He became a free agent after the 1976 season and had two more good seasons (winning 15 games with the South Side Hitmen White Sox in 1977, and the Cy Young award with the Baltimore Orioles in 1980.)

He became a broadcaster shortly thereafter, and still broadcasts baseball games somewhere. (It's too painful to say where). Stone turned 61 years old this week, and we salute him for his years with the Cubs, and specifically for those years in the mid-70s when he and his fine mustache took the mound at Wrigley Field.

(Photo: 1977 Topps Baseball Card)

BONUS MUSTACHE: Mick Kelleher

Kelleher was one of Stone's mustachioed teammates, and he celebrates his birthday next week (July 25). In more than 1000 at bats, covering 11 major league seasons (including five with the Cubs), Kelleher never hit a home run. He did, however, have a nice mustache for at least three of his five seasons with the Cubs.