Five months after the franchise's decades-long ban on beards was lifted, little attention is paid to who has - or hasn't - ...

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 ...

Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner is allowing beards for the first time since his father's team appearance started in 1976, but hair still must be kept above the collar.

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.

Steinbrenner, 55, came to find the Yankees' beard ban "outdated'' and "somewhat unreasonable'' given the grooming preferences of men in their 20s and 30s, but it's also better for business.

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 ...

George Steinbrenner, the late owner who forged the team into one of baseball’s most feared dynasties in the 1990s, insisted on a military approach to personal grooming: no long hair, no beards ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Let there be beards in the Bronx. The New York Yankees, at long last altering a George Steinbrenner-era policy on facial hair, will allow players and personnel "to have well-groomed ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Yankees’ long-standing no-beards policy is no more. In what can be described as a bombshell, considering the policy dates to 1976 and was instituted by George Steinbrenner ...

The Boss’ ban on beards is finally over. The New York Yankees nixed their no-beards rule Friday — an infamous ban owner George Steinbrenner established 49 years ago — and will permit "well ...

A 50-year-old policy ended Friday, with Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner's announcement that the club's beard ban was history. Yankees players were informed by Steinbrenner during a morning meeting ...

The New York Yankees are changing a nearly 50-year-old policy that banned beards. Here are some things to know about the history of beards in major league baseball.