Almost 50 years later New York Yankees The owner George Steinbrenner has implemented a policy prohibiting facial hair, the team made the shocking announcement to end that Hal Steinbrenner learned was a “outdated” rule that could have had potentially serious consequences for organization.
Hal Steinbrenner announced the change on Friday before the opening of the Yankees spring and plunged into the process that led him to make a new policy Where players can now wear “well -maintained beards”.
The New York Yankes Devin Williams (38 -year -old) Yankees launcher participates in spring training sessions at George M. Steinbrenner Field. (Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn images)
As Steinbrenner explained, facial hair has become the new standard. He underlined the leaders of our country, including the vice-president JD Vance, as an example of the way in which times have changed since the implementation of politics in 1976.
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“This generation, the vast majority of the years 20, 30 years in the 1940s, the men of this country have a beard. Our new vice -president has a beard, the members of the Congress have a beard – the list is still lengthening And again in this country and in this world, “he told media members at a press conference.
Vice-president JD Vance, is expressed at the conservative political action conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Amp; Center Center, Thursday, February 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, MD. (AP photo / manual Balce Ceneta)
“It is part of who are these younger men, it’s part of their character, it’s part of their character. Do I totally bind to that? It’s difficult for me, I am an older guy Who has never had a beard in his life.
Steinbrenner continued by explaining that knowledge of this led him to a “real concern” that politics could potentially be detrimental to the ultimate goal of Yankees to win his first World Series title since 2009.
The advertiser of the Yankees Michael Kay reacts to the change of hair policy of the “seismic” face of the team
“If I ever discovered that a player we wanted to acquire, to improve, to get a championship, did not want to be here, and if he had the capacity, did not come here because of this policy – as important As is the case for this generation – it would be very, very worrying.
File – The owner of the New York Yankees, Hal Steinbrenner, looks before a baseball match between the Yankees and the Toronto Blue Jays on August 21, 2022, in New York. (AP photo / Corey Sipkin, file)
“I am quite convinced that it is a real concern,” he said.
Steinbrenner, who succeeded his father as a control owner in November 2008, said that he had examined the problem for a while, but said that he had spent this season actively discuss the question with the players and others.
