Every Friday, 7IS Contributor Ryan Henning will take a look at what’s happening in the life of a former, possibly forgotten player. You may not think it’s important, but it must be important to someone.

I remember Mike Greenwell being a lot better than he was. Perhaps it was because he played out east, and his hot start to his career was during my formative years. After the 1991 season, though, things fell off fairly rapidly, and he wasn’t really ever the same player. He was 2nd in MVP voting in 1988 to Jose Canseco. He played his entire career with Red Sox before everyone hated them, then went over to play in Japan for a year. Obviously, the best part of Mike Greenwell ended up being his creepy mustache he wore early in his career.

Unlike most players we have profiled here on the FCS, Greenwell is not still involved with baseball, lost to the ether or in prison. He took his glove and left baseball, and is now racin’ trucks. He was only in his early thirties and still hitting in the .290s when he left the game, but he wanted to go drive really fast for a career.

He spent 10 years racing in south Florida before he latched on with former NASCAR pro Todd Bodine and is now racing trucks. Well, sort of. He only has two career starts, both in 2006. That means a career earnings of a almost 16K from his NASCAR Truck racing. I would make fun, but 16K for 5 hours of work sounds pretty darn good.

His son Bo (who got his name because Mike was too dumb to spell “Bob” as the jokes of the time went) is now part of the Cleveland Wahoos system. His signing bonus was 123300 dollars, or roughly 8 times what his dad made racing trucks.