How do you measure a baseball career? In RBIs and home runs? In all-star teams made and gold gloves won? In World Series rings? How about in dollars earned? In endorsements garnered? Or by the number of folk songs inspired? Those are all fine metrics, but I’ve got another one: in whiskers. Behold, Jayson Werth, […]

It’s been too long since we’ve done a UFH post at UmpBump. So in tribute to the playoffs, when the entire nation can marvel at players’ levels of determination and enhanced upper-lip decorations, we give you grit-meister Brendan Ryan of the St. Louis Cardinals. May his stache forever live in October lore.

When Jeff Kent announced his retirement recently, baseball lost much more than a great second baseman. It lost a great mustache. Amazingly, Kent’s ‘stache is not one of the handful of fuzzes that has its own entry in our Unfortunate Facial Hair pantheon. But don’t be fooled: his was truly fabulous fur. And it is […]