The New York Yankees have all the time been a “clean-cut” group. Properly, type of.
It began in 1976 when George Steinbrenner carried out a coverage to put in order in his group. He needed his gamers to have brief hair and clean-shaven faces.
“I’ve nothing in opposition to lengthy hair per se,” Steinbrenner advised Murray Chass of The New York Times in March 1976. “However I am making an attempt to instill sure sense of order and self-discipline within the ball membership as a result of I feel self-discipline is essential in an athlete.”
That coverage continued for practically 50 years, however the winds of change are blowing in New York. On Friday, George Steinbrenner’s son, Hal, introduced that Yankees gamers may now put on a “well-groomed beard” to make them extra comfy and maybe entice extra free brokers to town.
