After forbidding facial hair for 49 years, the New York Yankees introduced they may now enable it for gamers and different uniformed personnel.
The beautiful determination was revealed in a press release Friday by workforce proprietor Hal Steinbrenner through which he confirmed that, after chatting with a “giant variety of former and present Yankees,” the workforce is amending its longstanding facial hair coverage.
From right here on, Yankees gamers can be allowed to don well-groomed beards and mustaches.
After practically 5 a long time of banning facial hair, the Yankees made the suitable name. The choice to ban facial hair to start with all the time felt compelled and pointless.
Sustaining a uniformed look can add a degree of professionalism to a workforce, however the rule towards facial hair basically solely restricted self-expression.
Over time, gamers who sported lengthy hair or beards have been compelled to make a journey to their stylist or barber after becoming a member of the Yankees. Notably, when outfielder Johnny Damon signed with the workforce in 2006 after rising out his hair and beard with the Boston Crimson Sox, he knew he must kiss his lengthy locks and facial hair goodbye.
“Mr. Steinbrenner has a coverage and I’m going to stay to it,” Damon said at the time, referencing longtime workforce proprietor George Steinbrenner, who died in 2010.
The ban on facial hair has additionally value Yankees at the least one free agent. Former All-Star nearer Brian Wilson told general manager Brian Cashman in 2013 that he wouldn’t shave his signature beard to return to the workforce. (He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a substitute.)
With the outdated rule now a factor of the previous, all gamers, no matter facial hair fashion, can be a part of the Yankees with out concern of fixing their look.
