Tonight is being billed as Mustache Mayhem Night for the Brooklyn Cyclones, where potential Mets manager in waiting Wally Backman skippers the team. The first 1,000 fans will receive stick-on mustaches.
In 1999, then-Mets manager Bobby Valentine staged his own mustache madness when he returned to the bench wearing sunglasses and a painted on mustache after being ejected.
Backman already wears a real mustache.
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