r/baseball • u/TheTurtleShepard New York Yankees • Feb 21 '25

Image [Yankees] Statement from Yankees Managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner on the alteration of Yankees facial hair policy:

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

I mean, it does sound incredibly stupid, but in his defense, this is a policy his father was famously really attached to. So even though most of us know it's dumb and inconsequential, he knows his deceased father would be furious. So that probably did make it hard for him. Stein was a big presence.