Showing posts with label Tex Clevenger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tex Clevenger. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Tex Clevenger is the AL Wally Moon

I'm in Iowa until Wednesday with limited scanner access. Yesterday's card and today's are both Daddy D cards but I've had to get the jpgs online. I've done a couple of Wally Moon posts (here and here), and I think everyone agreed that Wally Moon had the all-time greatest unibrow. When I saw this 1960 Tex Clevenger while going through Daddy D's common box, I knew that a challenger for the title had emerged:

That brow is classic. But is it enough to displace Wally Moon?

As a player Clevenger had a solid 8 year career mostly as a reliever and spot starter, compiling a 36-37 record with a 4.15 ERA and a 94 ERA+. What's strange is that he retired after the 1962 season at the age of 29, a season which may have been his finest (he had an ERA+ of 133). Today he owns a car dealership in Portersville, CA, Clevenger Ford. Looks like that, at age 77, he could really kick you a@@ if he were so inclined.

Have a good one and goodnight Pumpsie Green, wherever you are!