The New York Yankees made headlines on Friday morning after chairman and managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner announced the team was doing away with its longstanding rule that banned facial hair below the upper lip or hair past the collar of a player’s uniform.

Bring the beards back to the Bronx. Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner declared "well groomed beards" would be permitted in declaring an end to the franchise's longstanding policy that allowed mustaches but not beards or unruly sideburns.