Facial hair has long occupied a special place in baseball. From the Rollie Fingers-led mustache gang of the early/mid-70s Oakland Athletics to the Yankees's explicit restrictions on facial hair styles, the place of the well-manicured mustache or the unruly mountain man beard has been the subject of decades of debate, appreciation, and entertainment.
Currently, there are players rocking some pretty stellar facial hair fashion. Dallas Keuchel's well-cared-for beard is essentially a giant rectangle dangling from his chin; Jayson Werth, as Phillies fans likely recall, rocks a beard/long hair combination that either evokes biblical images or reminds of the guy asking for change on the street yesterday depending on your disposition; Blue Jays minor league catcher Jack Murphy showed up to Spring Training in Dunedin sporting a mustache that set the world's heart ablaze with envy.