The in-house (that Ruth built) rule that denied New York Yankees players the right to wear beards on baseball diamonds from the 1970s on is done and dusted, not unlike like The Boss himself, who died at 80 back in 2010.
It’s the latest move showing that the new boss, George’s son Hal, who axed the 49-year-old rule on Friday, will do everything he can to differentiate himself from the old Boss, his dad.
Hal hasn’t threatened to move the team to New Jersey every time something goes wrong with their new stadium.
And now Hal won’t force his players to shave, just because his father may have wanted to mask the daily chaos happening in and around Yankee Stadium by forcing his men into a clean-shaven, prim, proper and professional look.
Hal doesn’t ask his managers to play every one of 162 regular season games like an NFL game, as the football-obsessed George always wanted.
