Comments on: Dave Heaverlo

By: 4b34r

4b34r — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:15:21 +0000

I used to work with a guy who looked just like Heaverlo, but sans the mustache. He was a carrot top too, and there just seems to be something funny about the absence of hair with them.

By: thunderfan24

thunderfan24 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:26:08 +0000

“There was an Oakland Raider with a shaved head back in the 70s too – was it Otis Sistrunk?”

Yes, Sistrunk was bald. He never went to college. Alex Karras jokingly said that his alma mater was University of Mars on a MNL broadcast. He (Sistrunk) also had a bit part as a short order cook in the movie Car Wash.

“Steve Balboni and Barry Lyons are two bald baseball players from the 80’s.”

I remember when Balboni was on the Yankees that he would always put his hat on as quickly as possible after removing his helmet in the dugout after an at-bat.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:11:12 +0000

In The Book of Basketball, Bill Simmons goes into great ecstasies about Rick Barry’s choice to face down his encroaching Kojakitude by wearing a full wig one season.

In football, I think I’ve gotta go with Y.A. Tittle and his defeated bleeding bald head as the top bald guy.

By: johnq11

johnq11 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:39:30 +0000

Some of those players that were brought up weren’t really bald, they just shaved their heads for fashion reasons.

Steve Balboni and Barry Lyons are two bald baseball players from the 80′s. Wade Boggs & Howard Johnson were going bald but I think they both got hair plugs.

Brooks Robinson used to have that terrible comb over so did Johnny Bench. I think Warren Spahn was bald.

Terry Bradshaw and Garo Yaprimian were bald in Football. Kareem Abdul-Jabaar from Basketball and Mark Messeir from Hockey.

By: blankemon

blankemon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:49:31 +0000

Well, Pete, then let’s not leave out Marvelous Marvin Hagler. There was an Oakland Raider with a shaved head back in the 70s too – was it Otis Sistrunk?

By: ramblin' pete

ramblin' pete — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:31:39 +0000

Let us not forget Yul Brenner. I used to confuse him with Telly Savalas as a kid; they were the only bald headed guys out there. It really was a weird look back in the hirsute seventies, golden age of the toupee, I suppose. Nowadays I sometimes just shave my head for the hell of it, and nobody blinks an eye.

I remember having a Heaverlo card where his jaw was severely distended from what I imagine was a snowball-sized wad of chewing tobbacco. And I agree that any remake of the Rockford Files would be a disappointment, as, come to think of it, all of those latter day remakes inevitably are.

By: 4b34r

4b34r — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:08:47 +0000

Awsome post!

By: sansho1

sansho1 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:55:41 +0000

I think Matt Williams and John Smoltz would call those other guys cheaters — they came by their baldness honestly.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:59:17 +0000

Pedroia’s pretty hairline-challenged, but Art Howe and Joel Youngblood, who both logged a fair amount of time at second, have him beat, I think.

By: Eric Enders

Eric Enders — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:57:12 +0000

Yeah, Pedroia’s a good one. And I somehow forgot Mariano who is the obvious closer.