Mo Vaughn: The Greatest Enigma of Our Time

Mo Vaugn really is the strangest guy ever. We understand that the end of his baseball career wasn't so dignified, but damn, do we have to keep learning new ways in which the former Sox slugger is really weird? First, we heard that he's opening up a high-end car wash in Attleboro, which despite making sense in light of his well-known love of Providence's Foxy Lady strip club, is pretty odd. Now it has come to Bostonist's attention that at some point in the past (around 1997, we think), Vaughn helped fund the restoration of a spaceship model from the old Buck Rogers TV show. What on earth can this mean? Does Vaughn just love old sci-fi television programs (along with strippers and clean cars)? Is he somehow obsessed with Buck Rogers, who pitched two games for the Washington Senators in 1935? Or is it minor league baseball general manager Buck Rogers? Is there a reason former ballplayers have to get into such odd shit once they retire? Truly, life is a great mystery.