The New York Yankees may have relaxed their facial hair policy this season but some franchise icons feel some nostalgia about the rule.

The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner, in a move aimed to improve player recruitment as the team tries to win its ...

New York Yankees Yankees’ Hal Steinbrenner reveals motivation behind stunning change to long-standing facial hair policy 'Our new vice president has a beard, members of congress have a beard ...

Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner announced a shocking change Friday to the longstanding franchise rule banning facial hair aside from mustaches, allowing now for "well-groomed beards." ...

Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner said players can now wear "well-groomed beards," ending a tradition that was created by his father George Steinbrenner in the 1970s.

TAMPA. Fla. — The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner, in a move aimed to improve player recruitment as the team tries ...

For the past 49 years, beards were not allowed among Yankees players. But team owner Hal Steinbrenner announced Friday that "well-groomed beards" will now be permitted as the franchise evolves ...

The New York Yankees will allow beards for the first time in 49 years, after owner Hal Steinbrenner removed a policy implemented by his father at the Major League Baseball club in 1976.

Steinbrenner's father, the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, enacted the beard ban in 1976. Since then, and as recently as Monday, players were routinely reminded to be clean-shaven when ...

But that was the only clarification we got." George Steinbrenner, Hal's father and the Yankees owner from 1973-2010, introduced the previous facial-hair policy — no long hair or beards — in 1976.

TAMPA. Fla. — The New York Yankees dropped their ban on beards Friday, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner, in a move aimed to improve player recruitment as the team tries ...

Steinbrenner doesn’t know for a fact that beards have cost the Yankees players, but Cashman said CC Sabathia felt hesitancy before signing as a free agent in 2008 because of the old policy.