Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Aristotle once said that envy is pain at the good fortune of others.

Seeing someone with something we want doesn't instill good feelings within us.

It breeds resentment and anger and it can make us act out in unbecoming ways.

Roland Roli Fingers didn't know that he was jealous when he caught a glimpse of Reggie

Jackson walking onto the field in 1972.

Fingers in Jackson played for the Oakland Athletics baseball team as pitcher and outfielder respectively.

Jackson had arrived at spring training that year sporting a brand new mustache, a blatant

act of rebellion against the unwritten policy that forbade players from growing facial

hair.

When it became clear that Jackson wanted to only stand out apart from the rest of the

crowd, Fingers and a few other players thought that they'd play a little prank on him.

He and his teammates, like Jim Catfish Hunter, grew their own mustache as too.

Now what they expected was that the A's manager, Dick Williams, would tell everyone to shave

them off, including Jackson.

Williams was a conservative man who, along with other managers, believed that players should

be clean-shaven at all times.

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