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(Photo: 1980 Topps Baseball Card)
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LARRY BIITNER
Of all the Cubs players in history with two consecutive "i's" in their last name, Larry Biitner was the greatest of them all. But that shouldn't be considered his only accomplishment. We will never forget that he also sported a great mustache.
Unfortunately, he cost the Cubs a perennial power hitter (Andre Thornton), but to acquire a mustache of this caliber, you must be willing to give up something. (Let's not quibble that a 1B who hit over 250 home runs was too high a price to pay). As a regular who split time between 1B and LF, Biitner did manage to hit .298 with 12 homers in 1977, but after that season he was mostly an extra outfielder. He never had as many as 350 at-bats in his other Cubs seasons, and after 1980, the Cubs let him go.
Still, when he was batting, he remains the only Cubs batter who ever heard "good eye, good eye" and wondered if someone was making fun of the spelling of hiis name.
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Photo: WGN Sports
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BONUS MUSTACHE: Bob Brenly
While it's true he never played for the Cubs, Bob has been the broadcaster for the team a few years now, and his mustache has never looked better.
One can only imagine what that mustache might have done behind the plate for the Cubs in the 1984 season, when he hit 20 home runs and hit .291 for the San Francisco Giants. Jody Davis was good...but his upper lip was no match for Robert Earl Brenly.
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