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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
Sorry for waxing hairy on this beard topic, and for my thread loquacity in general (despite everything, I am excited about baseball returning today), but I was surprised to read that the Yankees no facial hair policy started with George Steinbrenner. I thought it went back much further than that.
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It's a no-BEARDS policy, specifically. The Bronx Zoo and beyond were full of staches.
Reggie
Sparky
Goose
Munson
Dick "Dirt" Tidrow
Rickey
Winfield
(and even Claudell Washington, when he came in to replace Winnie in 1989.)
Don Mattingly wore a mustache every bit as famous as Keith Hernandez's for his entire career.
It's possible the Jeter-era teams might have forbade the hairy upper lips, too…but King George III was fine with his Yanks having soup-strainers, all around the clubhouse.