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Baseball’s Best Facial Hair: Past And Present

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New Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly was known during his playing days for having a great mustache.

Throughout his playing days and his early days as a coach and manager, Mattingly and his mustache were inseparable.

During the past couple years however, Miami’s skipper has adopted a more clean-shaven look and he’s going to make sure that all of his Marlins players follow the same sentiment.

Mattingly made news earlier this week by instituting a facial hair ban for all Marlins players and coaches, a move that drew criticism from the American Mustache Institute who said “Mattingly has turned his back on an opportunity to celebrate his Mustached American roots.