Watching game four of the baseball World Series, I’m struck by the absence of playoff beards. For the uninitiated, playoff beards refer to the tradition of a hockey player not shaving during the Stanley Cup playoffs. A player stops shaving for the first game of the playoffs and does not resume until his team is eliminated or wins the championship. Most believe the tradition was started by the New York Islanders during their championship run in the early 1980’s.
While playoff beards have....