The Oakland A’s are here to do two things: win some baseball games, and grow some mustaches. Over the years, they’ve been excellent at both.
The A’s probably didn’t invent the mustache, though history can’t be certain. What we can say for sure is that they revolutionized the art of upper lipholstry in Major League Baseball, in the 1970s when the Mustache Gang defied the league’s tradition of tidy grooming and used the power of their whiskers to win three straight championships. Their 1972 World Series matchup against the clean-cut Cincinnati Reds was dubbed the Hairs vs.