Letters and postcards arrived in NBC mailboxes, and in one intricate reference, fans also mailed felt goatees.

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The natural extension of Movember (pun intended) is the trend toward handlebar mustaches, huge Father Christmas-style beards and lavish goatees.

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Kevin Youkilis was there, but now a Yankee, and thus deprived of his magical copper goatee thanks to his new club's prohibition on beards and goatees.

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