Last year, Mike Fiers offered the world a gift. On Sept. 14, 2019, he took the mound for the Oakland A’s wearing one of the most wonderful, unique, awful, amazing, terrible beards in sports history. Unfortunately he left in the 2nd inning with a minor injury (hyperextended sense of style? a fever from looking too hot?), but that was long enough for it to enter the record books forever.
The cat-tail beard was a work of art, and you can see the photo at the top of this post. It extended from the right ear, down the jawline, around the chin, and then up into a normal mustache.