The handsome black mustache, once the talk of baseball, is gone.
"Too many gray hairs were popping in," Bobby Grich said. Last year, knee surgery robbed him of half of his cartilage. But his physical woes stop there.
"All of my other parts are in gear," said Grich, 66, a onetime Orioles second baseman. He skis in Idaho and plays golf in California, where his home hugs the fairway of the sixth hole of a course in Coto de Caza.
"The green is 80 yards from my door, so I know every break on it," he said.