(Photo: 1977 Topps baseball card)

TED SIZEMORE

He was the Rookie of the Year in 1969 with the Dodgers, and played a scrappy second base for the Cardinals and the Phillies after that, but his Cubs career was rather brief.

In 1979 he played most of the year for the Cubs. On August 2nd of that year he was involved in a little altercation at a Montreal restaurant. Cubs management treated the players to dinner that night, but they put a limit of two bottles of wine per table. Sizemore was incensed at the limit, and stormed out of the restaurant. He complained on the bus ride the next day, and he complained on the plane ride. The Cubs traded him to the Boston Red Sox two weeks later.

When Herman Franks resigned as Cubs manager at the end of the year, one of the reasons he said he quit was because of the whiny players; specifically naming Sizemore, Bill Buckner, Barry Foote and Mike Vail.

On the other hand, Sizemore did have a great mustache. That simply cannot be denied. He turned 63 years old last week.

(Note: This is not the same Sizemore who got caught up in the Heidi Fleiss scandal a few years ago. That was actor Tom Sizemore. That Sizemore didn't have a mustache.)