Home Run Derby

It seems like every single sports blog out there seems to have an article about some Beard lately.  Beard after Beard after Beard. 

Well, we’re gonna jump on the bandwagon too … Baseball’s had some memorable faces in its history. Some young and handsome, some unforgettably ugly, some clean- shaven, and some … a little more hairy.

Let’s take a look at ten of the more memorable beards in MLB history.  From the big to the small, the thick to the thin, and the groomed to the grizzly.

Bruce Sutter

Good God.  You really can’t tell where the hair ends and the beard begins on this guy.  It’s like a vertical halo of hair around his face.

This might be the best beard in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Sutter finished with 300 Career Saves, most of them with the beard.

Rick Aguilera

This might be the most well-groomed facial hair on a white guy in the history of the Major Leagues.  It looks like it’s right off the box of a package of Just for Men.

Aguilera set up the Mets amazing comeback against the Red Sox in Game Six of the 1986 World Series by letting the Red Sox score twice in the top of the 10th inning.

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Lightsaber Baseball !!

Seriously … that’s just cool.  I can barely photoshop an image and this guy edits a lightsaber blade onto a baseball bat.

It wouldn’t be a stretch for FOX to do this considering their foray into glowing pucks for the NHL back in 1996.  Then again, considering how that went over … maybe we’ll just forget about the concept.

But it looks like Pedro Martinez had the idea back in the Red Sox dugout back in 2004.

 

Surviving Grady gets the hat tip for the Pedro pic