Just a few days into spring training this year, on February 26, the New York Yankees announced that they were ending a team ...

There are big and important stories in the news today about that endlessly awful war being waged by Russia and Ukraine. And ...

Yankees legends CC Sabathia and Derek Jeter publicly supported the rule change. Ex-outfielder Johnny Damon, who memorably ...

Marcell Ozuna knows he is in a contract year for the Atlanta Braves. While he is trying not to think about it, the writing ...

For the first time in 50 years, a team that takes pride in a clean-cut look will allow players to grow beards.

New York Yankees legend Bernie Williams spent his entire playing career clean-shaven, and not by choice. Williams followed the organization’s decades-old facial hair policy like every other teammate ...

The Yankees announced earlier this month that ... Players previously could wear mustaches or display stubble. However, the club banned beards and hair below the lip for nearly 50 years.

The New York Yankees have abandoned their half-century prohibition of beards, a policy that was archaic even from its infancy. Now I find myself strangely, unexpectedly bereft, stroking my own beard ...

The Yankees’ clean-cut policy, which only permitted mustaches while prohibiting beards and long hair, was originally implemented by late owner George Steinbrenner. It was seen as a ...

The move was considered stunning because, since 1976, facial hair other than a mustache was not allowed by any Yankees player, coach or staff member. Now, general managing partner Hal Steinbrenner ...