This is day 23 of the “7th Inning Stache”s 100 days of MLB mustaches. All of the Staches will be cataloged in our MLB Mustache Hall Of Fame. If you have any tips on some fielding first basemen follicle follies please email us the tip @ NESWblogs-at-gmail.com.
Today’s special guest inductor is The Rev. Paul Revere from The House That Glanville Built:
Doug Glanville was a slightly above average defensive centerfielder with a pop-gun arm and a streaky bat — hardly a player that impacted the lives of the baseball fan masses. But he is the inspiration of my site, The House That Glanville Built, for several reasons. For one, Doug Glanville was a better player than people like to give him credit for. The former Cub, Phillie and Ranger was a career .277 hitter who rarely struck out, stole a good number of bases and covered ground in the outfield very gracefully. He also scored 100 runs twice in his nine-year career, and his best season came as a Philadelphia Phillie, when in 1999 — his second as a Phillie — he batted .325, had an obp of .376, an ops of .833, slugged .457, scored 101 runs, had 204 hits, 38 doubles, 6 triples, 11 home runs, 73 RBI and 34 stolen bases as the leadoff hitter. Excellent season, no doubt.
But, Glanville was more known in Philadelphia as a pop-out machine with no power and no arm, hardly considered one of the team’s best players. So when the Phillies, a franchise who struggled in the Glanville years, announced they were building a new stadium in the early part of the decade, I used to jokingly refer to it as the House that Glanville Built. At first, it started as a joke, but to this day, I still call Citizens Bank Park The House that Glanville Built.
Despite his forgettable career, Glanville was well-liked in Philly. He grew up in New Jersey, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in the University City section of Philadelphia and then became a Phillie. And since his retirement, he’s put his intellect to good use as a columnist at The New York Times. By all accounts, he’s an excellent guy. And he has an excellent mustache.
Each day we describe the stache in one word.
Doug Glanville’s stache = Intellectual
