[JRutledge]

For the record, my comment was not about baseball. What is allowed in baseball is not the same as what is allowed in basketball or football. For example it is not allowed for the officials in those two sports to wear one kind of uniform and your partners to wear another. In baseball, one guy can wear a jacket and another guy might not wear one. So the expectations are different. I know I have seen guys at the NCAA level wear facial hair in baseball much more than the sports I was referring to. As a matter of fact I know a couple of D1 umpires that have a mustache. It might be a conference or assignor thing more than what the NCAA mandates. I do not know of any other sport that mandates the wearing of facial hair or not. It is the assignors and the culture of that sport that dictates that behavior.

Peace