When my parents made me wear a batting helmet with a facemask when I was playing baseball in elementary school, I was okay with it because Charlie Hayes wore one.
I met Vizcaino when he played for the ‘Stros. I’ll never forget his game-tying pinch-hit single in the ninth inning of Game 2 of the 2005 World Series, which happened seconds after I said “Why are they putting in Viz-can’t-hit-o?!”