Hopping Gnome co-owner Stacy Lattin, left, pushed her husband, Torrey, to enter his big beard in a contest. And he won. Courtesy photo It seems to be part of the uniform of beer brewers across the ...

Sean Doolittle has faced some of baseball’s most feared hitters as an A’s reliever. But that didn’t prepare the left-hander for the first time he went beard-to-beard with his own promotional garden ...