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Known for one of the best mustaches in all of sports, Rollie Fingers had 341 saves, played for three clubs and won three World Series, was a AL MVP, and seven time all-star. With a massive 601 ...

Were Sutter a closer in the current era, he wouldn’t come anywhere near the Hall of Fame, same as Rollie Fingers. Sutter might even be a one-and-done candidate with the writers. Standards for ...

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Oakland Athletics’ Ken Holtzman #30 and Rollie Fingers #34 celebrate in the clubhouse after defeating the Baltimore Orioles to win the American League Championship Series at Oakland-Alameda ...

There are only eight closers in the HOF, and of those, only Rollie Fingers (25.6) and Bruce Sutter (24.1) have a lower bWAR than Wagner’s 27.7 (by way of comparison, Dennis Eckersley retired ...

According to a post on X, on Sunday, July 28th, when the Brewers host the Miami Marlins, former MVP and Rookie of the Year ...

He fared substantially better with the A’s, a 1970s dynasty whose players included Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers. In Oakland’s World Series championship years ...

Q: All right, if you took Larry Bird's hair, Shaq's eyes, Joe Torre's eyebrows, Baron Davis' teeth, Rollie Fingers' mustache, Dikembe Mutombo's voice, Ricky Henderson's language, Jay Fiedler's ...

Oakland still won the AL West easily, five games ahead of Texas, and rode their star power with Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and Rollie Fingers to relatively easy wins in the ALCS and World Series.

The Baseball Hall of Fame officially "jumped the shark" for me in 1998, the year Don Sutton and Jim Rice headed the ballot. Had the Dodgers offered to trade Sutton straight-up for Rice during ...