Having just returned to Cincinnati following a 10-game road trip in the summer of 1980, Ron Oester was down to his last pair of clean boxer shorts, which happened to be a gag gift he received the previous Christmas. He thought his uniform pants were thick enough to conceal the reindeer print pattern, but everywhere he went that day he couldn’t help but feel like people were laughing at him…

Mike Schmidt was one of my favorite non-Cardinal players as a kid. A dominant third base power hitter with a sweet ‘stache. He was a powerful presence in baseball and still is known as one of the best 3rd baseman to ever play the game.