For decades, the New York Yankees enforced a grooming policy so strict it could make a military dress code look lenient. The ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

George Steinbrenner, banned beards for New York Yankees players, the current owner - his son - dropped the ban ahead of the spring training opener.

The Yankees’ “appearance policy” first started when George Steinbrenner took over the team in 1973, and made an official team rule in 1976. While facial hair was baked into the history of ...

The Yankees’ spring training home and the Rays’ impending, temporary regular season home, has undergone massive renovations.

The New York Yankees have dropped their ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner. Current ...

Fay Vincent, the commissioner who banned George Steinbrenner from baseball in 1990, died Saturday. He was 86. Vincent died in a hospital in Vero Beach, Fla., after complications from bladder ...

Player and staff facilities at George M. Steinbrenner Field, the spring training home of the Yankees, were renovated and newly constructed over the past two years. Credit: Newsday/Thomas A.

Baseball fans who grew up during the so-called "Evil Empire" days of the New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner could surely never envision a time when the Bronx Bombers were the ones ...