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Flashback Friday: Carlos Delgado Dyes His Hair Blonde

Baseball is a funny sport ... and baseball players can tend to be an odd bunch. Often times, they'll do unorthodox things to either break a slump, start a new streak or to simply mix things up.

For this week's Flashback Friday, we take a look at one of the stranger moments of the 1998 Toronto Blue Jays season; when Carlos Delgado dyed his hair blonde on a dare by Roger Clemens.

So what exactly motivated King Carlos to transform himself into a blonde bombshell? Here's what Rosie DiManno wrote about in the Toronto Star from 1998:

"Delgado who usually keeps his dome cueball smooth, cut his head whilst shaving.