New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner revealed Friday his motivation behind changing the team's long-standing policy on facial hair and why it was time to change.

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the Yankees will allow their players and uniformed staff to grow beards — so long as they are “well-groomed” — as Hal Steinbrenner announced on Friday that the ...

Decades before George Steinbrenner purchased the Yankees, the future Boss spent his high school years at Indiana boarding school from 1944-47. Later, after earning a B.A. at Williams College in 1952, ...

For nearly 50 years, every New York Yankees player was barred from having facial hair. On Friday, the Major League Baseball ...

Hal Steinbrenner couldn’t stomach the thought ... hair aside from mustaches that dated back to his late father George Steinbrenner’s installation in 1976, Hal opted to make the bold change ...

The greatest test of Steinbrenner’s distaste for long hair on his players came in 1991, when then-captain Mattingly was ...

The Yankees amended their facial hair policy after it had been a topic of internal conversation for around 10 years.

George Steinbrenner was known for ruling the New York Yankees with an iron fist. Unlike many other owners, he enforced strict policies within his clubhouse and out on the field.

The catalyst for the N.Y. Yankees changing their controversial, 49-year-old hair policy was likely when P Devin Williams ...

Insiders are putting the onus of ownership change on the team. Hal Steinbrenner, son of the yesteryear owner George Steinbrenner inherited the team post-2010 and the Yankees have had nothing to ...

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 to win its first ...

The strains of "New York, New York" won't be heard over the loudspeakers this season after a Yankees loss as club moves to ...