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Mustachioed Pitchers of the 1980s #8: Steve Rogers

steve-rogers-1981-fleerSteve Rogers
Mustache Rating: 4 Fingerses

Years Active: 1973-1985
Teams Played For: Montreal Expos
Career Stats: 158-152, 3.17 ERA
Was He Ever a Diamond King?: Yes!
Claims to Fame:

- Steve Rogers, denied a chance to serve his country until a unique military experiment maximized his physical structure, turning him into a super-soldier. Frozen in suspended animation at war’s end, he awoke in the modern world, a man out of time but — [[checks Wikipedia disambiguation page]]

- WAS NOT Captain America
- Played his entire career for Montreal Expos, a decidedly un-American team, despite their deceptive color scheme
- Hold franchise records for wins, innings pitched and strikeouts, and with the team’s2004 demise, is assured to be their top pitcher for all eternity
- With three post-season wins in 1981, pitched in 60% of all Expos post-season victories, 1969-2004
- Got the decision in the Expos’ 1,000th franchise victory, a total that took them fourteen years to reach. “The second thousand will come much quicker,” Rogers assured the press in 1982. He was correct; it only took them twelve.
- Denied even a single Hall of Fame vote in 1991 (and questioned why not even Montreal journalists denied him the hometown vote), but was later inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Expos Hall of Fame
- Currently living in New Jersey working for the Major League Baseball Players Association, but still reps the Expos (and Mustachioed Pitchers) in Old Timers’ games

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