The New York Yankees are making a serious change heading into the 2025 season, and it’s one which the late George Steinbrenner most likely wouldn’t admire.
In a shocking assertion on Friday, Yankees proprietor Hal Steinbrenner introduced that the group is altering its almost 50-year-old look coverage. The coverage, applied by George Steinbrenner, beforehand prohibited gamers from having facial hair apart from mustaches and allowed hair from the pinnacle to develop under the collar.
The Yankees will now enable “well-groomed beards,” Hal Steinbrenner says. The choice to vary the looks coverage was made after consulting with present and former gamers.
“In current weeks I’ve spoken to a lot of former and present Yankees — spanning a number of eras — to elicit their views on our longstanding facial hair and grooming coverage, and I admire their earnest and different suggestions,” Steinbrenner wrote. “These most up-to-date conversations are an extension of ongoing inside dialogue that dates again a number of years. In the end the ultimate choice rests with me, and after nice consideration, we will probably be amending our expectations to permit our gamers and uniformed personnel to have well-groomed beards shifting ahead. It’s the acceptable time to maneuver past the acquainted consolation of our former coverage.”