To the Manner Born

Great group of birthdays today, just a great group - four baseball players (a burgeoning icon in Flushing, a man known primarily for the size of his boner, the home run king of the worst franchise in professional sports, and a charter member of both the Large and the Lambchop Hall of Fame), four football players (a Lion in the Hall, a most unlikely MVP, and two Cowboys legends later jailed for drugs), two musicians (the bassist on the Jackass theme and the drummer on "Detroit Rock City"), an Indomitable Lion, one of the greatest bowlers of all time, one of the greatest, and most sportswomanly, tennis players of all time, a Belgian cycling legend, an uncommonly tall race-car driver, and the executive who helped change the course of the 20th century.