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The face of baseball is entirely obscured by its beard

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/mlb-...pring-training

29 out of the 30 Major League spring training camps in 2015 see an array of tonsorial fashions and a raw bulk of facial hair perhaps unmatched in the game’s modern era, chinstraps and goatees and King Tuts and Van Dykes and Fu Manchus and countless bushy, flowing beards that make their owners distinguishable from Civil War soldiers only by their uniforms and lack of gangrene.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playoff_beard

The playoff beard has expanded into Major League Baseball, the Canadian Football League, the National Football League and, to a lesser extent, the National Basketball Association.[9] The practice generally resembles that of hockey in that players don't shave until they either win a championship or are eliminated.