Mustaches in early baseball

[Rhotchkiss]

Below is a picture of a very cool cabinet from 1886 posted by a member for sale on BST. Notice that every single player pictured except one (1) has a mustache. 23 years later the t206 set comes out, and of the 524 possible card fronts, there is only one single player/front with a mustache (Titus). What happened that the stash went from “the look” to nada?

[mr2686]

That 1886 Cabinet is obviously mislabeled and should say the 1972 A's. LOL

[brass_rat]

Interesting question...

Here are some thoughts from the interweb...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moustache
"Moustache popularity in the 19th century peaked in the 1880s and 1890s coinciding with a popularity in the military virtues of the day."

From this reference article:
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2015...ary-moustache/

And there was this neat graph (although I have no idea how accurate it is...) from this GQ article:
https://www.gq.com/story/facial-hair-trends-over-time

[RCMcKenzie]

I think today's style is the James Harden, Dallas Keuchel look. I'm older so I go with the Miami Vice style...

We could be close to running out of topics on here..ha-ha

[Rhotchkiss]

That graph is wild! So many thoughts.... Regarding my original post, seems that mustaches were indeed the bees knees in the US when the cabinet came out.

[GeoPoto]

Hats in the stands were once universal but disappeared around WWll, before making a comeback as less fashionable, but more practical, baseball caps.