Anthony Volpe, Jasson Domínguez and Paul Goldschmidt from the New York Yankees Talk during the spring training in George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, on February 19, 2025.
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Start spreading the news: For the first time in almost 50 years, the New York Yankees enable players to grow beards.
In an explanation on Friday, the Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner said that he had spoken to former and current players about long-term politics that prevent and prevent and prevent the facial hairs has decided that the team will now allow “well -kept beards”.
“These recent conversations are an expansion of the ongoing internal dialogue that goes back for several years,” Steinbrenner wrote. “It is the reasonable time to go beyond the familiar comfort of our previous politics.”
The news is coming days after Pitcher Devin Williams, whom the Yankees had acquired from the Milwaukee Brewers in the off -season, had some forbidden face hair on an official team photo. Williams previously maintained a beard with the brewers during his time.
The facial policy of the Yankees was first implemented in the 1970s by George Steinbrenner, the former Yankees owner and father of Hal Steinbrenner. Politics banned all facial hair as a mustache, with exceptions for religious reasons and on scalp hair under the collar for players, trainers and male managers.
George Steinbrenner, who died in 2010, justified the rule to convey discipline to the team, and said reportedly said the New York Times in 1978 that he “wanted to develop pride in the players as Yankees”.
Since then, all players have held back to politics, if not without resistance. As is well known, the captain of Yankees, Don Mattingly, in 1991, was refused to get a haircut, an incident that was ridiculed in an episode of “The Simpsons” from 1992. The former Yankee Andrew McCutchen said in 2020 that it would have been difficult for him to join the team when he still had dreadlocks, which he wore in the early years of his career at the Pittsburgh Pirates, and asked the franchise that Usually to change.
The tradition has also thrown away some potential Yankees. General Manager Brian Cashman said in 2013 that he excluded the trade with auxiliary mug Brian Wilson because Wilson refused to shave his beard. Pitcher David Price said in 2013 that he did not want to play for Yankees due to politics.
Many past and current players have eliminated their beards when they joined the Yankees from another team, including Gerrit Cole, Johnny Damon and the current acquisitions outside of the season Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger.
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