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Oakland A’s infielder Eric Sogard has brought eyeglasses back to baseball. It’s time to rank the greatest glassletes of all-time.

#10 – Al Arbour

Al Arbour played 17 season as an NHL defenseman, won the Stanley Cup with three different teams and was the last player in the NHL to wear glasses on the ice. All of the other eyeglass’d hockey players presumably retired before him due to shards of glass sticking out of their eyes.

#9 – Kurt Rambis

Rambis played 14 seasons in the NBA and was integral in the Los Angeles Lakers winning winning four championships. What he lacked in athleticism he more than made up for in glasses tape.

SportsPickle readers voted to elect the scrappiest athlete of all-time. After more than 60,000 votes from dozens of contenders, here are the athletes you determined to be the most scrappy.

25. Theo Fleury

Fleury scored 1,000 points in the NHL, won a Stanley Cup and an Olympic gold medal and did it all at 5-foot-6. He even gutted through a season with Crohn’s Disease. His last name means “flower” in French, but tell him that and he’ll probably punch you in the ribs or even higher up your body if he can reach.

24. Martin St. Louis

St. Louis has scored 80 or more points in a season six times during his career despite being only 5-foot-8. The Lightning captain is also the highest-ranked hockey player in the voting. Of course, if the NHL itself had been a voting option for scrappiest, it would have won in a landslide.

23. J.J. Barea

At 6-feet, 175 pounds, Jose Juan Barea exploded onto our scrappy radar with his scraptastic contributions to the Dallas Mavericks’ championship run. Just 27 years of age, expect Barea’s scrappy stock to continue to rise as the sports world’s scrappiest — or “mas animoso” — Spanish-speaking basketball player.

22. Moredecai “Three Finger” Brown

All the evidence you need is in the name. If your nickname describes your body post-amputation or farm machine accident, you’re pretty scrappy. The 239 wins, 2.06 career ERA and Hall of Fame spot are almost overkill.

21. Troy Brown

He was a possession receiver who agreed to play defensive back to help the team. He regularly got cut or was forced to take a pay reduction. He was only 5-foot-10. He didn’t come from a college football power. And he played in Boston. Put all that together, and you have the makings of the scrappiest athlete of all-time! Who knows what it is about him that kept voters from placing him higher on the list. A true mystery. Hmm. Hmmmmm.