Facial hair brings Boston players together
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The Boston Red Sox and St Louis Cardinals tied for the best record in baseball in the regular season. Each team led its league in runs, with solid starting pitching and a dominant closer emerging midway through the season.
But if you’re looking for a favorite in the World Series that begins at Fenway Park, it’s got to be the Red Sox — by a whisker.
Boston’s dugout is overflowing with facial hair these days, part of a bonding ritual that began when Jonny Gomes showed up scruffy at spring training.
“It just sort of grew,” catcher David Ross said. And grew and grew all season long.
Gomes was the first in Boston’s beard brigade, allowing his to grow out over the course of the season into an ear-to-ear wedge of fuzz. As his teammates joined in, the beards became a way for them to bond and a symbol of the improved clubhouse chemistry.
The Boston beards, like the players they are attached to, all have nicknames. Jarrod Saltalamacchia is known as “Salty” to teammates who don’t want to pronounce his surname, and his beard is “The Saltine.” Canadian Ryan Dempster’s is “The Canuck.” David Ross’ whiskers, with their streak of gray down the middle, are known as “The Wolf,” but the rest of him is known by the nickname “Rossie.”
Mike Carp, aka. “The Freshwater,” says it hurts when someone tugs on the whiskers.
But Mike Napoli’s beard, known as “The Siesta,” is tops in the clubhouse. “He’s got a full caveman thing going there,” reliever Brandon Workman said.
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